Re: [wg-c] Eureka?

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

Javier SOLA wrote:

> It is dangerous for the community, not for the company who would like to
> make a fat profit out of it.

Javier:
You missed the point.
Is it "dangerous to the community" for private enterprises to operate, for
profit,

> >1) radio spectrum bands?
> >2) real estate?
> >3) third-level domain names under a registered SLD?
> >4) an Internet exchange point?
> >5) a domain name server?
> >6) telecommunication links into the Internet?
> >7) a domain name brokerage for SLDs?
> >8) an Internet access provider?

If you believe so, aren't your views out of step with thereality of the
Internet? Hasn't the growth and development of
the Internet and its accessibility to the people increased
enormously precisely by harnessing the incentives generated
by private, competitive business?

Would you have us go back to the pre-1992 Internet?

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