Re: A long strange trip

[thomst@netcom.com (Thom Stark)]

Carl  stated:

> I agree the playing field is slanted.  NSF somehow gave NSI a plum, and NSI
> is squeezing the plum for all it's worth (and making terrible decisions in
> domain name trademark matters as well).  When the NSI contract expires, NSI
> has said it intends to keep running COM answering to no one.  The Internet
> community will be best served if *everyone* keeps clearly in mind,
> continuously from now till 1998, the importance of eliminating NSI's monopoly.

Y'know, one thing the IAB, ISOC and ISOC's Board ought ALL to commit to
RIGHT NOW is that, when the NSI contract expires, NSI's ability to 
update the DNS root servers should IMMEDIATELY be revoked.

This would not only end NSI's monopoly on the .com domain, but forever
eliminate NSI as a registrar--something that, in my view, they richly
deserve for being:

	1. greedy
	2. unresponsive
	3. stupid

and, oh yes, let's not forget

	4. arrogant

Regards,

Thom Stark

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