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Re: Why you should support the Green Paper

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From: David Schwartz
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:00
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><karl-emulation-mode>This is not a FREE MARKET system!  NSI is being
>handed a CONTINUATION on its monopoly!  Sheesh!  All the same issues
>that came up YEARS ago when com/net/org registrations were converted
>to profit-making are STILL THERE.  The MISTAKE was to convert to a
>unique registrar to a PROFIT-MAKING institution in the first place.
>CORE is proposing to FIX that mistake, only you and your ILK (I love
>that word.  Ilk, ilk, ilk, ilk, ilk.) have prevented them from
>implementing it.</karl-emulation-mode>


    *laugh*

    Even in the freest of free markets, Ford still has a monoply on Fords
and no one else can call their car a Ford unless Ford made it.

    However you see the DNS-space, it's a resource that has to be allocated
by some organized system. Possible analogies might be things like
frequencies or brand names.

    DS
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Subject: Re: Why you should support the Green Paper
Date: 1998/01/21
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