<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://393/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've decided to rename Milton Milton-the-proclaimer-of-annoying-specious-nonsense. As he believes names are powerless and have no intrinsic meaning that connects to their signifier, this shouldn't bother him at all, and I expect him to find this a development that he welcomes and applauds, as by doing so he is able to demonstrate support for his argument. <div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br><div><div>On 26/02/2013, at 11:18 AM, Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Allowing closed generics will lead to massive traffic redirections worse than on .xxx circumstances compelling the concerned to take that string's allowable defensive registrations route. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">[Milton L Mueller] How exactly? Alex, are you falling for the old “magic of the top level” argument? So if someone registers .Book, they magically acquire all the wealth and power of everything associated with books.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I am casting a spell on you, Alex. I have named a file on my server “Gakuru” and soon there will be a<a href="http://internetgovernance.org/gakuru" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://internetgovernance.org/gakuru</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on the Internet. With this, I will have gained full control over you. Now, watch Alex stop arguing with me and start agreeing!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Magic is wonderful.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "></span></i></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>