Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

[Craig Simon <cls@flywheel.com>]

The legacy of the Juno issue has a lot of resonance for some people. The aol.com example may seem
far-fetched and even ludicrous, but given a post-Juno context in which NSI continues to justify its
(fortunately failed) attempt to take down the DNS service of a very large and well established
e-mail provider, other "alarmist" hypotheticals deserve consideration.

Craig Simon

"William X. Walsh" wrote:
> 
> Monday, August 23, 1999, 11:14:38 AM, John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.com> wrote:
> 
> > How would you deal with that? The answer is that you CAN'T realistically.
> > For better or for worse, AOL will have to continue using "aol.com" for the
> > forseeable future no matter how pissed off it got with NSI.
> > If NSI tomorrow demands US$10million to renew "aol.com", they might get sued
> > by AOL, but AOL would most likely pay up in the meantime while seeking their
> > legal remedies (hey, you don't suddenly want 14 million customers calling
> > the hotline wondering why their email doesn't work, do you?).
> > One of the largest amongst the many BIG problems to deal with is the lock-in
> > that so many on these lists seem to live in denial of.
> 
> This alarmist rhetoric ignores some basic premises.
> 
> 1) The registry would be cutting their own throat, while they might
> get a small handful of renewals, the bulk of their business would just
> say screw it, and go elsewhere.
> 
> 2) These exact situations can EASILY be addressed as simple
> contractual requirements.  If NSI did this, boom, they lose .com.
> 
> End of story, can we move on to substance now?
> 
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