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

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

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.

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.

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.

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Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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