Re: Tired of Waiting

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 11:45 PM 7/14/98 +0200, Robert Shaw wrote:
>Christopher Ambler wrote:
>> 
>> Your assessment is as inaccurate as your basis for the claim. What
>> is the difference between a registry making an honest profit and a
>> registrar making an honest profit? If both provide good service,
>> contractually prohibit gouging and harm to the Internet, where is the
>> harm?
>
>Because this is the Internet public infrastructure and not your personal
>playground to make a fast buck. History has taught us a big lesson.

You have incorrectly stated the nature of the internet. There is no public
infrastructure (it was removed with the NSF routing tables). The internet
is entirely a private co-operative infrastructure. 

That would be a PRIVATE TRUST.	

>.com represents 85% of all gTLD registrations. There is a reason: gTLDs
>are non-portable, quasi-non-interchangeable goods (imagine 'ownership'
>of .inc in a world of 100 million SLD delegations). Therefore, competition 
>between registries (aka gTLDs) is fantasy. So get over it. Become a
registrar. 
>Go forth and suffer *real* competition, not pseudo-competition because you 
>have a lock on a gTLD. 

Not bad coming from someone with a solid lock on a TLD. Or is the ITU
planning on adding .INT to the CORE database? You should, as it'll be the
only TLD that actually works there.

The real reason .COM was allowed to get so large was because the IAHC
(which you were a member) completely and thoroughly screwed up. The
international community called you on it, won, and consequently there are
no new TLDs yet.

I think you, Bob, should personally take a large portion of the blame for
the .COM zone getting so big.



Best Regards,

Simon

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