RE: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 07:47 AM 11/6/1999 , A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>At 01:32 PM 11/5/99 , Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>>reach rough consensus that it would be safer to *start* with non-profit
>>registries.  (Please stop me if I'm remembering this, or any other
>>statement, incorrectly.)
>
>Conversely, many (including myself) have expressed
>the view that its safer to proceed with for-profit
>organizations, and that any other avenue is an
>unlawful restraint on trade to which they could
>not be a party.


In the recent round of discussion, the REASON that doing a not-for-profit 
first was stated simply and directly.

Care to provide the reason(s) that a for-profit is "safer"?

To prime the pump, please note that current experiences show that a 
for-profit is quite good at holding customers and ICANN hostage to its 
market power.

And to anticipate one false line of response:  NSI has always been 
for-profit.  It's service used to be quite awful.  Only quite recently it 
got better -- and for those watching operations-related mailing lists, you 
can see that even recently it ain't so good.  At any rate, the improvement 
that has taken place was from pressures surrounding its potential loss of 
franchise, not its profit motive.

d/


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