Jay Fenello wrote:
I agree with most of what you've said, *except* the motive you attribute to the U.S. Government. After all, this *is* the same Commerce Department that has been leading the way in telecommunications deregulation.
Two years ago, I might have agreed with you. My experience with this process has convinced me otherwise. Maybe there are some extremely dedicated and competent Government people involved with this one, or maybe the very nature of the Internet forces government to live up to our highest ideals.
Whatever the reason, I think the USG process has been a good one. We now have a chance to work with it to effect the best solution possible, while being vigilant to the concerns that you raise.
I find it highly amusing that Jay Fenello, Bob Allisat and the rest of the AlterNIC crowd are suddenly all highly in favour of the USG and their plans. Of course, this is because they feel they will get a monopoly TLD out of it. I wonder what their attitude will be when the first five registries are allocated to AT&T, Dun & Bradstreet, EDS, Yahoo and General Electric? Ivan Ivan Pope ivan at netnames.co.uk NETNAMES * The INTERNATIONAL DOMAIN NAME REGISTRY Global Domain Name Registrar - gTLD Registrar http://www.netnames.com - http://www.gtld.com UK Freephone 0800 269049 180-182 Tottenham Court Road London W1P 9LE UK +44 171 291 3900 +44 171 291 3939 Fax Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. Hunter S. Thompson -------- Logged at Sun Feb 8 00:54:08 MET 1998 ---------