Spinoff important? (Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions)

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 12:21 09/03/2001 -0500, vint cerf wrote:
>the success here had nothing to do with divestiture but rather to do with
>opening of competition; competition would continue and would even be
>enhanced in the new proposal as .org would be spun off, .net would be
>spun off, and .com would remain. Since the erosion of market share
>was not a consequence of spinning off the registrar but of allowing
>other registrars to register in .com, .net and .org, there does not
>seem to be much value in spinning off the registrar.

Another interpretation is that the *threat* of being forced to spin off the 
registrar allowed competition for registrar services to happen.
If this interpretation is correct, the threat has to remain active somehow 
in order to ensure fair treatment of all registrars.

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

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