Re: [wg-c] Eureka?

[Javier SOLA <javier@aui.es>]

The point is about scarce resources, not about companies that operate in an
unlimited market. You can compete as a portal or a bookstore in the
Internet. There might be as many of these as they wish to be, but only one
registry can be ".info". It is a natural monopoly, and it is not a good
idea to give it to somebody to explote it. One was given temporarily to
NSI, and look what happened... or data, handed to a US Government
contractor for handling the registry is considered by them now as their
private property, and they have discontinued data services, a a proper
whois...  Is that a free market?  If it was a bookstore, I would move to
another one, I cannot do that here.

Javier

At 21:04 8/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Javier SOLA wrote:
>
>> It is dangerous for the community, not for the company who would like to
>> make a fat profit out of it.
>
>Javier:
>You missed the point.
>Is it "dangerous to the community" for private enterprises to operate, for
>profit,
>
>> >1) radio spectrum bands?
>> >2) real estate?
>> >3) third-level domain names under a registered SLD?
>> >4) an Internet exchange point?
>> >5) a domain name server?
>> >6) telecommunication links into the Internet?
>> >7) a domain name brokerage for SLDs?
>> >8) an Internet access provider?
>
>If you believe so, aren't your views out of step with thereality of the
>Internet? Hasn't the growth and development of
>the Internet and its accessibility to the people increased
>enormously precisely by harnessing the incentives generated
>by private, competitive business?
>
>Would you have us go back to the pre-1992 Internet?
>
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