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Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions
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?
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kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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