RE: Re[4]: [wg-c] Re: IP/TM Concerns & New GTLDs

["A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

At 12:14 AM 8/4/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > The CORE registry was designed to compete
> with NSI.  It cost, in
> > *very* round numbers, about $1M.  On the other hand, Nominet is
> a
> > completely successful effort, built originally for much less
> than
> > $1M, and it does fine.  That's because REGISTRIES ARE
> NATURAL
> > MONOPOLIES.  It isn't necessary to be the size of NSI to make
> a
> ...
> Excuse me if I say that this is naive. If business were this easy 
> we
> *wouldn't* have so many millionaires. It's a PITA to change all of
> your

The term "natural monopoly" is a largely discarded
notion of regulatory agencies.  ICANN is not supposed
to be operating as a regulatory agency, much less using
discarded concepts of the most heavy handed such agencies.
It - and its participants - have a fiduciary duty to
accommodate a wide variety of business models.



--tony