Thanks Bob, for your comments on this interesting concept. I have always promoted public service internet access. In fact, my paper for the Internet Society conference in Hawaii in 1995 was about a funding model for public internet access in developing countries. After spending 5 years working for the United Nations in such countries in the Caribbean, It became clear that some method was needed to bridge the gap between "information haves" and information have-nots". I am all in favor of profitable enterprise. And I subscribe to the concept that pro bono service is a responsibility of the mature professional. You (all on the list) may be interested in reading my paper, "Networking the Caribbean via the VIP FreeNet" at http://www.usvi.net/cobex/inet95 As an update, there are now 3,000 plus registered FreeNet users, and the VIP FreeNet has served over 500,000 user sessions, average 45 minutes, since Sept 8, 1994! Regards to all Peter de Blanc (personal page at http://www.usvi.net/cobex/people/peter ) Bob Allisat wrote:
I will take this opportunity to address the assembled in regards to a small profit and not for profit domain name registries we are evolving. If you visit our Free Community Network WWW Site at <http://www.fcn.net> you will see a working prototype of a free independant no profit Name Services Provider (NSP).
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