[ncdnhc-discuss] An overview of the issue

[Jim Fleming]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller at syr.edu>
> 
> 2. Divestiture itself is half the battle.
> 
> The primary rationale for this whole exercise
> was to get dot org out of Verisign's hands and
> into someone else's hands. That is, the impetus
> came from promoting competition. So that 
> objective is achieved merely by executing
> the divestiture expeditiously.
> 

You have not mentioned price, cost, etc.

Does anyone really think it costs $6 per name per year
to run a Registry with 3,000,000 names ?

Also, you have not mentioned who is working behind
the scenes to put some percentage of that $18,000,000
in their "non-profit" pocket.

You have also not mentioned the highly likely case where
some non-profit "front" will be claimed to be the Registry
and then the operations will be out-sourced, right back to
the same mega-companies that of course are the only ones
who can properly keep .ORG stable and secure. Look
behind the scenes of all of the major ICANN TLD deals
and you find the same players.

Fortunately, 2002 will soon be here and IPv8 will allow
everyone to route around all of these scams.

It all boils down to fairness.
Which list do you think is more fair ?
The "toy" IPv4 Internet Early Experimentation Allocations ?
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
or
The Proof-of-Concept IPv8 Allocations ?
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt

Why would people pay for Address Space, when it is FREE ?

Jim Fleming
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