Ivan wrote:
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?
The solution has always been to throw the doors open to competition amoung thousands of Independant Domain Name Registries. CORE sought an artificial monopoly. The USG has explicitly stated that they're opposed to such monopolies. As for the foolish technical and fiscal requirements contained in most other proposals I can only say: do your homework people. A Domain Name Registry/registrar can easily function with off the shelf hardware, relatively simple software and basic connectivity. AND still function with repect to the Internet and it's clients. For more on my views visit http://www.fcn.net. TeleVirtually Yours, Bob Allisat http://www.wtv.net -------- Logged at Mon Feb 9 10:38:49 MET 1998 ---------