A Real Monopoly: Boston Globe writer Compares Microsoft and ICANN http://www.dnspolicy.com/news/99/09/24/1859234.shtml "Still, there's something in the American character that winces at the sight of powerful organizations that exercise vast sway over us, even whent hey are indispensable to our high-tech lives. That's why I've been getting so much hostile e-mail about a different sort of monopoly _ ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. " "But ICANN is not Microsoft. In a sense, it's more powerful. Microsoft's monopoly isn't airtight. I can always buy a Macintosh or Linux computer. But to get an InternNet domain name, I'll have to play by the rules of ICANN, a nonprofit organization that will neverhave any competition at all. As monopolies go, ICANN may be more worrisome than Microsoft. It even touches on the inappropriateness of ICANN implementing a mandatory Uniform Dispute Policy. Worth the read. -- William X. Walsh - DSo Internet Services Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:(209) 671-7934 Editor of http://www.dnspolicy.com/ Join DNSPolicy.com's discussion list! http://www.dnspolicy.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/discuss <IDNO MEMBER> http://www.idno.org
