Greed (was: Re: First come/First served)

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Nov 22,  5:07am, System Administrator wrote:
> Subject: Re: First come/First served
> >
> > At 6:04 PM -0800 11/18/96, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >
> > > Chris, I seriously respect your position.  But I believe that the
> > > IAHC *must* ignore prior applications.  There was *no* formal
> > > application process in place, and to give priority to informal
> > > applications discriminates against those who patiently waited for the
> > > issues to be resolved.
> > >
> >
> > What about everyone who followed Jon Postel & Bill Manning's advice on
> > the newdom lists. A year ago, they specifically instructed folk on how
> > to submit TLD applications, and where to send them (to InterNIC who
> > would forward them onto IANA). This was way before draft-postel, let
> > alone the idea of the IAHC. Consequently, IANA has a folder full of
> > applications. To throw those applications out now is going to be an
> > inherently costly mistake.
> >
> > Simon
>
> ... and I will be the catalyst that makes it the MOST costly
> mistake they've ever made, I assure you.

This is just *PURE* greed, and should be ignored by all. What we need
is to design a system of iTLDs that will being the greatest good to the net
in general. Anyone that is denied from the Make Money Fast scheme IMHO
had it comming. Those that took the risk of setting up *EXPERIMENTAL*
iTLDs, did just that an experment, which I believe has failed.

-Rick



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Rick H. Wesson