Re: [alac] Losing SiteFinder

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2003-10-06 07:17:38 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote:

> I don't understand your last comment, sorry.  It doesn't seem to address 
> the change I made.

With your edit, that particular text sounds like the
reimplementation of the service that we suggest might also be
redirection-based.  That's of course *not* what we should say.

> >> >ICANN has called for "further evaluation and study" of the impact of
> >> >SiteFinder. The proper QUESTION [[[evaluation is]]  for VeriSign to
> >> >CONSIDER IS [[[determine]]]
> >> >whether it will reimplement its REDIRECTION AND
> >> >advertiser-supported  search as an
> >> >option at the edge of the network -- where users can elect or
> >> >decline to use it at their will -- or not at all.
> >
>>This change does not make sense: What we suggest is that
>>Verisign is, of course, free to get into the business of
>>providing advertising-supported search and directoroy services,
>>but that it should *not* use its position as the .com/.net
>>registry to redirect unsuspecting users to that service.

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Thomas Roessler  <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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