Re: [ga] IANA & the .US Sell-Out

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

WXW and all assembly members,

William X Walsh wrote:

> Tuesday, Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 3:15:21 PM, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>
> > Having denied the American Internet Community the opportunity to offer input
> > into the process, we are now stuck with an untenable situation in which
> > short, memorable names that truly belong in the public realm are now to be
> > sold off to speculators without the prior benefit of appropriate policy
> > council guidance on the issue.  Had public input been requested prior to the
> > redelegation, many such issues would long ago have already been resolved.
>
> As most of your contributions, this too is less than honest.

  I disagree that Danny is being less than honest here WXW.  To be
truly fair, it is Danny's opinion that perhaps you and some others
do not agree with.  But it is his opinion none the less, and he is
entitled to it as well as within his rights to share it.

>
>
> The facts are that the USG DOC's NTIA did in fact have a rather
> lengthy and open public comment process on this issue, and it was
> widely publicized, including on this very list.

  Very true.  But I believe that this was before Danny became
actively involved as a participant.

>
>
> As for the issue of speculation, you assume that removing speculators
> from the market is a good thing.  I say that any such restriction
> would be an unfair restraint of trade.

  I would tend to agree with you here WXW.  There are some
specific exceptions I think however.  Hoarding of DN's is a bad
thing for purposes of perhaps remarketing them would be one of those
exceptions.  Another would be what WLS proposes to do.  And
yet another exception might be a lottery process for DN's in
a new TLD name space.  Such a practice promotes hoarding
and is very divisive to boot...

>
>
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> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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