Re: Monopoly/Ologopoly

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 11:34 AM 12/24/96 -0500, Alan Sullivan wrote:

>Hi Hank,
>Yes - we will probably create anachronous names - but so what?
>Why is this a problem?

Because the Internet has been the success it has been due to not supporting
anarchy.  Example: RFC822 has fixed headers.  What if I didn't like Subject:
and 
wanted to have instead Topic:  I would get a bunch of people together who
agreed with my idea and we would all start sending email with the word Topic
rather than Subject.  Along comes the Internet (IETF, IAB, IANA, etc.) and
sets standards and tries to wipe out the anarchy that some may prefer.

As you say above, you probably would create anarchious (sp?) gTLDs and
I would not be able to go along with that.

>Thanks,
>Alan
>-- 
>Alan Sullivan
>President
>Top Domain Registry Inc.
>
>
Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
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