Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:27:01PM -0500, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
> At 03:00 AM 3/12/2001 +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
[...]
> 
>          I believe that the proposed revisions cannot be approved by April 
> 1 if there is to be anything left of the notion that ICANN is a bottom-up 
> organization.  But if I were to speak to the merits, I would agree with 
> Roberto.  One of the reasons that the proposals have so conspicuously 
> failed to win community support is that the arguments made in their favor 
> are so implausible.  Maintaining the .com and .net registries together with 
> the dominant registrar has plain anticompetitive potential;

You have a misunderstanding.  NSI loses .net, as well.

> the fact that 
> there are now independent registrars with their own market share is not 
> itself a reason to abandon a procompetitive divestiture.  ICANN staff have 
> urged that the benefit to this transaction lies in making the Verisign 
> registry contract look like the proposed new TLD registry contracts, but 
> they have not explained why (other than on esthetic grounds) we should view 
> that congruence as overridingly important.  Nor does the procompetitive 
> benefit, if any, of causing Verisign to spin off .org

..and .net

> begin to outweigh the 
> disadvantages the contract would bring.

You are just waving your hands.

Could you specify why?  What, specifically, are the disadvantages that it 
would bring?

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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