Re: An observation

[chris@hal.iodesign.com (Christopher Ambler)]

>	At our public meeting, I heard one speaker declare that the domain
>name space must be treated as a public resource, with administrative
>services contracted for.  I heard the audience spontaneously applaud.  To
>underscore this point, I then asked the counter question:  What about
>treating the name space as an entrepreneurial opportunity for brand-equity
>deevelopment, licensing names to registrars and letting then develop them
>as they wish, making whatever profit they were able.  The audience hissed.

Please, it was a loaded audience! Perform the same set of questions at
a meeting of entrepreneurial Internet businesspeople and see what you
get. What did you expect?!

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Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.