Re: [wg-c] non/for-profit

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:01:36AM -0500, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
> 	The list has been uncharacteristically quiet over the last couple of days,
> which is refreshing, but less than ideal from the perspective of getting
> our work done.  The proposition has been stated and defended on the list
> that the establishment of a mixed system of for-profit and nonprofit
> registries would not be problematic.  There has been little opposition.

My impression of the consensus is that for-profit registries might be
OK in the future, but for the initial rollout registries should be
non-profit. 

>  Do
> we, in fact, have rough consensus on this point?  All of you who believe
> that the inclusion of for-profit registries would be unacceptable -- please
> stand up and be counted. 

Here.

> (Certainly that view has been expressed on the
> list in the past.)

How, then, is it that you have suddenly come to what I consider the
startling conclusion that we are near consensus on this particular
issue? Are those past opinions to be ignored because they were in the
past? I haven't seen anybody recanting those positions.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain