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Re: Monopoly/Ologopoly

Hank,

  Wellsience you copied me on this I suppose I should respond. 
BTW, you are up bright and early this Christmas mourning!

  Read below your comments for the rest of my response.

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> 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.

  Well if you are refering to me, I do not prefer anarchy.  If you think
I do thatn you have either not read my responses correctly or you
have misinterpreted them intirely.  I can remember a time when I was 
a senoir fellow at IBM and the current CEO John ? was very anachronous
about the direction in which IBM took with the direction of the PC.
THOSE decisions were very much akin to anarchy!  I hope you don't 
believe that I would go along with that type or decision making.  In 
fact it was do to that CEO that I resinged with some fanfair from IBM,
as did many other senior managment folks.  It is partially do to that
experiance that I DESPERATLY want to see some standards.  But these
standards must be bennificial, easly understoon, enforcable, and 
widely excepted.  Otherwise they are of little use, and will not endure.
> 
> As you say above, you probably would create anarchious (sp?) gTLDs and
> I would not be able to go along with that.

  Well, speeking for myself, I most certianly would not!

Regards,


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