Re: Dispute resolution

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 3:36 PM -0500 12/22/96, Leo Smith wrote:

> Karl Denninger wrote
> : Private businesses?  I thought the DNS namespace was a public good (ie:
> : managed by governments) and operated in the public trust?
> :
> : At least, the IAHC is paying lip-service to that concept.
>
> Let's assume that the DNS namespace IS a "public good", operated as a
> public trust. How does it compare to the frequency of a particular band on
> the radio spectrum? The government (the FCC) assigns EXCLUSIVE licenses to
> FOR PROFIT business entities  who want to use the "public good" so they can
> make money by transmitting television, telephone or radio signals. There's
> really not much difference between the exclusive licensing of a particular
> bandwith on the radio spectrum and the exclusive licensing of a particular
> gTLD.

Stop right there. Your analogy is wrong.

The individual spectrum blocks assigned to each broadcast station are
exclusive, just like my having HIGGS.COM is exclusive to my company.

The assignment of the FM or AM (or any other) band of frequencies is
essentially the same as the gTLD. This is where the analogy model
breaks down. The FCC does not give third party agencies delegation of
whole bands, unless they are specifically for the exclusive use of that
agency (such as government freqs for NASA, secret service, etc.).

The FCC delegations are a really bad analogy to even try to use. The
model for TLDs is different.



Simon

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