Re: [wg-b] Re: ICANN's Mandate

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@alvestrand.no>]

At 18:29 14.10.99 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
>The world of trust and cooperation got about 1 percent of that 100 million.
>The rest was produced by the world of commercial competition.

and 95% of the registrars, including NSI.

>Yes, it is the accreditors who have changed, but the real point is that there
>was no central authority who issued uniform accreditation requirements 
>designed to give trademark holders and other control freaks regulatory 
>leverage over the entire system.

no, Jon just (uniformly) required them to behave reasonably.
these days, what that means has to be spelled out in detail, and the 
trademark people want to make sure they do most of the spelling.

                          Harald
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