Re: [ga] FW: Comment from the gTLD Registry Constituency

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Neuman, Jeff wrote:

> As the ERC properly realized, not all stakeholders are equally affected.

That is the same nonsense that told ValuJet and Alaska airlines that they
were affected more by the cost of their mantainence and freight loading
policies than were those who were merely passengers.

Those who use the domain name system are just as affected by it as those
who sell domain names - this is true whether measured on an individual or
cumulative basis.

(As an example of a large affect on a single domain name holder - One
could well conclude that the single DNS user IBM would be affected more
than the total value of neustar by the failure of "ibm.com" to work.)

The "mine is bigger therefore I get more say" argument is one that has 
been one of the primary sources of ICANN's failures.

		--karl--


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