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

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

Harald and all remaining assembly members,

Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> 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.

  Seems to me that what is important is the fair treatment of the REGISTRANTS,
not the registrars.  This is something that the ICANN BoD needs to concentrate
on rather than the Registrar side of the equation.

>
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