RE: [council] TOTALLY INCORRECT Information about CENTR

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

Michael,

A good rule is 

"Never see conspiracy when good old fashioned stupidity is just as good an explanation" :-)

Thanks for the explanation of CORE - I always wondered.

Dennis

On Wednesday, October 06, 1999 8:42 PM, Michael Schneider [SMTP:sastre@anwalt.de] wrote:
> /* some of the CCs removed since I'm not on the respective lists */
> 
> At 19:40 06.10.99 +0100, Dennis Jennings wrote:
> 
>  >CENTR Colleagues,
>  >
>  >A press article in a Swedish journal included the following TOTALLY
>  >INCORRECT information about CENTR.
> 
> A truely interesting contribution. One never ceases to learn ;-)
> 
> For general amusement I can contribute some extracts from an article which 
> the German magazine "NetInvestor" (sic!) published a couple of weeks ago on 
> the topic of ICANN:
> 
> "dominance instead of monopoly ... the golden cow slaughtered.
> 
> The monopoly of Network Solutions has been broken ... now other companies 
> my also act as registrars of Internet-addresses. ... Core, the Center for 
> Organ Recovery & Education, is one of the five chosen few that may 
> distribute Domain Names."
> 
> It is always wonderful in what detail some journalists do research. Luckily 
> the reports are sometimes so evidently incorrect that one mustn't worry 
> about the result. Even the Swedish journal already disqualified itself in 
> the second sentence:
> 
>  >"CENTR proposes the introduction of the TLD .eu in order to promote the
>  >interest of Europe. Because the national TLDs are relatively small
>  >compared with .com, .net and .org, 33 ccTLDs decided in March 1998 to
>  >establish the organisation for lobbying called CENTR.
> 
> One should recommend the authors to have a look at the TLD .de, which (at 
> least when combined with two or three of the other leading European ccTLDs) 
> is not really several orders of magnitude away from .com.
> 
>  >We, the CENTR Executive and staff, are trying to find out whether this
>  >was just bad/stupid journalism - or whether there is perhaps a more
>  >sinister explanation.
> 
> The latter I can hardly imagine in view of the quality of the quote.
> 
> Best regards,
> Michael Schneider
> 
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