Re: [ga] Contract Verisign / ICANN and statuschange of dot org from unrestricted to restricted

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:40:47PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
> Hello Kent,
> 
> Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 8:52:59 PM, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> >> Sorry, Kent, but you are not correct.  RFC1591 did not in any way
> >> state that .org was a non-commercial TLD.
> 
> > You seem to have trouble with simple logic.  It says 
> 
> >     1) it was intended commercial entities go in .com
> >     2) it was intended  that things that don't go elsewhere can go in .org
> >     3) things that are not commercial are non-commercial
> 
> >     therefore:
> 
> >     commercial entities don't go in .org
> 
> >     corollary:
> 
> >     .org was intended to be non-commercial
> 
> No, this does not carry to that kind of conclusion, Kent.  The actual
> charter for .org simply says organizations that don't fit elsewhere.

Precisely.  And 1591 explicitly states that commercial organizations
*do* fit elsewhere, hence they won't go in .org.  So, according to 1591,
commercial organizations don't go in .org.

This isn't rocket science.  It isn't complciated.  There isn't any
mystery.  It is simply the case that Jon really intended .org for
non-commercial entities.  People such as yourself have tried to torture
the language into meaning something else, but there really isn't any
question.  The mere fact that Jon told NSI that they might as well stop
trying to enforce that charter (as has been reported on this list) is
simple proof of what he originally intended. 

Moreover, there is no real question that most non-commercial entities 
use .org as the domain of choice, and contrariwise, most commercial 
entities vastly prefer .com.

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