Re: Specific Questions

[Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>]

> Karl,
> 
> At 01:31 PM -0600 12/26/96, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >	make all of this easier.   I have challenged the IAHC to produce a
> >	line-item budget justifying these fees.  They have not yet done so.
> >	I am willing to bet they NEVER WILL DO SO, since if they do I and
> 
> How MUCH are you will to bet?  Since I'm sure you were not merely using a
> rhetorical technique, let's continue with this serious offer you are making
> and see what the concrete details of your offer are.

Let's see it Dave.  If I have to plunk down money to bribe, er, request that
the PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS of a body making PUBLIC POLICY be published RIGHT
NOW, then this isn't about making public policy.

Its about doing things behind people's backs.

> >6)	Complete irrelavance to the real world in regards to (5).  If the
> >	TLDs are all shared, the net effect of a registry failure is ZERO.
> 
> Well, now, THAT's an interesting view from someone running an ISP.  There
> are a number of you in Chicago, thereby making Chicago a shared-ISP
> environment.  Do you believe that it would have zero effect on your
> customers if you suddenly ceased operation today?  After all, there are all
> those other ISPs to choose from.

If having an account here meant that you could call any ISPs modem pool, get
to your home directory, web page, and other resources without regards to
who's modem pool you used or who you paid, then it would in fact be that
situation.

This is PRECISELY what the forced-shared model is.

We don't have that in the ISP marketplace.  In fact, you *CAN'T* have that
in the ISP marketplace as doing so by force would violate just about every
aspect of the anti-trust laws in the US.

Which, of course, the IAHC thinks its immune to.

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