RE: [wg-c] Eureka?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 11:54 PM
>
> That's ridiculous - bidding on a contract is anything but
> Marxist.

You missed the point. Under Kent's restrictions no one will want to bid.
There is no reason to because there is no benefit in winning the bid.
Would you work a full-time job that ONLY paid your basic living
expenses, with absolutely no allowance for any profit or any other sort
of reward, not even an ice-cream bar. Well, maybe they'll allow your
name to appear in print once in a while. Oh yeah, they can take your job
away from you, at any time, for any reason. Especially, if you start
doing the job too well, you might get delusions of grandeur. It would be
worse than living under fixed-income.

Would you like such a job? Now put yourself in the place of a CEO with
the opportunity to bid on such a gem. Such an RFP would find the
shredder faster than last years marketing plan.

>gTLD registries need to be run in the interests of the internet
> public - to offer exclusive rights *and* allow the registry to pick
their TLD
> is insane. Look at IO...anything, as long as it's .web.

I fail to see the relevance of this reference.

> I would like to think that we are beyond Fordisms in this
> discussion...

What's a "Fordism"? The reference to Marx was pertinent because he
invented that particular blind-spot (human motivation). Other references
to socialism and communism are incidental and irrelevant. Please, don't
go there, I wasn't.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roeland M.J. Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
> To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>; wg-c@dnso.org <wg-c@dnso.org>
> Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [wg-c] Eureka?
>
>
> >I think that this pretty much will kill off the registry business and
> >leave it all to NSI and CORE. Frankly, under these rules, NSI would
> >probably bail out too. I have no earthly clue as to why CORE would
> >continence running a registry under these sorts of conditions.
> >
> >The problems with this are obvious. They indicate the same
> myopia that
> >Karl Marx had a problem with. Thy ignore the human need for
> incentive.
> >What's the motivation...ego? ... prestige? Neither of them
> will pay the
> >rent, or even buy a cup of coffee.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On
> >> Behalf Of Kent
> >> Crispin
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 10:47 PM
> >> To: wg-c@dnso.org
> >> Subject: Re: [wg-c] Eureka?
> >
> >> In particular, of course, I don't believe ICANN should enable
> >> exclusive registries.  Nor do I think that registries should pick
> >> their TLDs -- I think that there should be many
> registries, but that
> >> they should  bid to run TLDs with fixed term renewable contracts.
> >
>