[wg-c] reposted for Harald Tveit Alvestrand

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

>Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:44:40 +0100
>To: mueller@syr.edu, Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>
>From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
>Subject: Re: IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS  Root
>Cc: wg-c@dnso.org
>
>Milton, I think you're wrong.
>Note the words you yourself used to describe the telephone system situation:
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>At 18:57 18.12.99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>>I wrote my dissertation on the days when
>>there were competing, non-interconnected telephone systems (1894-1925) and
>>society faced the same basic debate raised by Karl: is it better to 
>>encourage the growth of competing systems, at the price of a fragmented 
>>telephone calling
>>universe, or to have a monopoly telephone system, which integrates the
calling
>>universe but has to be regulated and is less likely to be innovative?
>
>Note especially *non-interconnected, competing systems*, and *fragmented 
>telephone calling universe*.
>
>If we break apart the Internet, multiple roots are feasible.
>But we should recognize that this is exactly what we're doing when 
>introducing multiple, non-cooperating roots: Breaking apart the Internet.
>But then it's no longer the Internet. And that's *still* a technical issue.
>
>You know what we chose for telephones. The ITU and the FCC are (in part) 
>parts of is the result.
>
>                        Harald
>--
>Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
>Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
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