RE: [ga] Transfers & WHOIS

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Sorry for the P.S.

The best example I can think of for this is the Unix vs Linux event. Unix
was a restricted proprietary operating system. The burden became so onerous
that it prompted the birth of Linux and the open source community.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Roeland Meyer 
|> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:50 AM
|> To: 'Eric@Business.com.VN'; Rick H Wesson
|> Cc: Jefsey Morfin; ga@dnso.org
|> Subject: RE: [ga] Transfers & WHOIS
|> 
|> 
|> It has been proven, over a period of decades, in many more 
|> networks than the present Internet, that running code trumps 
|> whatever arbitrary policies that non-coders can come up 
|> with, every time. It has to, first and above all, make sense 
|> to the programmers or they will not write the code that way. 
|> If you actually pay the programmers to implement arbitrary 
|> policies then other programmers will write a new version 
|> that opens it up to "technical limits-only" and that's the 
|> version that becomes the defacto standard.
|> 
|> Operating under any other assumption has proven to be 
|> delusional in the past, over many instances. Hence, my 
|> comments in this area. There are instance-proofs involving 
|> MSFT, IBM, HP, SUN, and DEC, among others.
|> 
|> Implementing policies that are a sub-set of the technical 
|> limits has proven to have limited success in the past and 
|> track-record is all that matters. Unless, you like repeating 
|> mistakes and adding to the body of evidence stating otherwise.
|> 
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Eric Dierker [mailto:eric@hi-tek.com]
|> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:53 PM
|> To: Rick H Wesson
|> Cc: Jefsey Morfin; ga@dnso.org
|> Subject: Re: [ga] Transfers & WHOIS
|> 
|> 
|> It is my understanding that this is a TF within the DNSO via the NC. 
|> Not IETF, ASO or PSO. 
|> It is therefor very much about the politics and privacy 
|> issues of WHOIS and not so much about the technical aspects. 
|>  If I am not mistaken there are many perfectly acceptable 
|> technical applications and the questions to be resolved are 
|> of a social nature, contractual nature, privacy nature and 
|> moral nature. 
|> I would be interested to see any reference otherwise. 
|> Sincerely, 
|> 
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