Re: [wg-c] "Public" resources

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 08:27 AM 10/08/1999 -0400, Kevin J. Connolly wrote:

(arguments based on bad analogies snipped. Arguments against monopoly
profit extraction from a Government granted concession are agreeable, but
the conclusion that a profit-insensitive mechanism (such as the
gTLDMoU/CORE model?) is the only answer is debatable)

<MM>
>>easier to manage by dressing it up in the language of "public"
>>or "community" ownership, as Javier always does. The "community"
>>is divided. That should be obvious. We accomplish nothing when
>>one faction claims that it "is" the community and thereby
>>continues to deny that other factions, other ideas, and other
>>legitimate interests exist.
>
>As David Crocker has pointed out in other fora, the Internet Standard
>of rough consensus enables those who judge the existence (vel non)
>of consensus to disregard those voices who have been engaging in
>disruption and hatchet jobs from the inception of the process.
>
>I have no doubt but that the ICANN board will be able to identify the
>Men with Hatchets in this WG.

And if all else fails, resort to  McCarthyism. 
Please identify them yourself,  give them the chance to defend themselves
against the charge of "disruption" and let's get this over with.




--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , bootstrap  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org