Re: ISO 3166 recomendations.

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Marty Modell wrote:
> 
> >   Sure, and NSI customers who find that **their** customers
> > are being misidirected to some bogus .com domain that a ``pirate''
> > dns operator has set up will sue.
> 
> The customers don't "belong" to NSI

  I didn't say that....

  The customers in question were folks who had a domain in .com
say ``bigcompany'', and found that people who were trying to get to
www.bigcompany.com were really going to www.bogus.crook... Lawsuit
city!  (In fact, if bogus.crook was taking money, possably criminal
prosecution city).


> A basic flaw in the draft is the assumption that NSI will continue to
> be a registry and will be outside of the rules and agreements for all
> other registries.  NSF can if it wishes unilaterally (most government
> issued contracts have such a clause) revoke or modify the contract.

  Interesting.  Is this part of the NSI contract in fact?

--dave
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