Sir,
You may not be aware
of the fact that you are not talking to
undergraduate students. Your investments
are certainly not feeding
anybody else but yourself ... if they are successful.It
doesn't make much sense to say that domain name registrations
should cost 35$/year
or more - because coffee is expensive.
The registration process for a domain name
costs less than 35cents,
except you include vast saleries and shareholder profits
that are not
necessarily part of the process. These additional costs do not exist
for
the benefit of the internet community or even feed them. Your
arguments therefore
are misleading.
I may tell you to have filed an international patent request for
a
system providing a 100% identification through lokal nets or the
internet.
Because of its new logic, the system cannot be hacked.
At the moment 20 programmers
are working on the realization of this
project, which is expected to be ready
in March 2002.
I fear that Verisign share value will not rise upon our competition,
once
we shall have started.
This may show you, how little your comments matter.
You
shouldn't stick to the size and the current power of a company,
but to the technology
it sells and the price it asks for.
If the price is 10 times too high, then you
are on the wrong side.
Competition is necessary and ICANN is too shortsighted at
the moment
and forms a real danger for the internet, which will grow around
ICANN
and/or Verisign as a consequence.
We are not here to talk about the price of a
cup of coffee (I am
neither smoking nor drinking any coffee) but about the future
of the
internet.
You'd better not mix it up.
Regards,
Friedrich Kisters
CEO
Human
Bios GmbH
Seeblickstrasse 34-36
CH-8280 Kreulingen
Switzerland