FW: [wg-c] straw vote -- question one results & call for votes on

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roeland Meyer [mailto:rmeyer@uswebcks.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 6:41 PM
> To: 'Christopher Ambler'; 'Ross Wm. Rader'; Roeland Meyer;
> 'John Charles
> Broomfield'
> Cc: 'pg@name-space.com'; Kent Crispin (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [wg-c] straw vote -- question one results & call
> for votes
> on
>
>
> Christopher is making my point for me, rather well I might
> add. In spite of
> Kent's wife's employment (perportedly at a VC house). There
> is no way any
> company would make any substantial investment (like setting up and
> advertising a data center for a registry) when they know that
> they will be
> under-bid in five years. Maybe I assumed that some of you
> were sharp enough
> to understand that, Chris was. It's an elementary problem and
> will obviously
> come up as stated. Kent also fails to mention that this is a
> problem aat
> LLNL. My rejoinder to that was pertinent, those out-source
> vendors do not
> make anywhere near the upfront investment, to service those
> institutions,
> that a registry operator has to make. They also don't work on
> commission.
>
>
>
> I apologze for not sending this to the WG-C list, but this
> account does not
> have a subscription there.
>
>
>
>
>
> > No one is
>
> > advocating a "five-year guaranteed out-of-business limit". If
>
> > the
>
> > > registry is run well, then chances are pretty good that
> it would be
>
> > > successful in its re-bid.
>
> >
>
> > Like heck.
>
> >
>
> > If you start a registry, spend millions on advertising, make
>
> > the TLD very
>
> > popular, I'll come in and underbid you in order to get the
>
> > benefit of all
>
> > the spending you did on advertising and good-will. If .com were
>
> > re-bid, nobody would care who was running it (indeed, some might
>
> > even rejoice). In the meantime, NSI would have hundreds of employees
>
> > being laid off and tons of infrastructure being sold at surplus.
>
> >
>
> > Sorry, it's a non-starter.
>
> >
>
> > Re-bid in cases of insolvency or violation of contract. Make
>
> > the contract
>
> > as strict as you wish, so companies get into it with their
> eyes open.
>
> >
>
> > Christopher
>
> >
>