Re: An Open Letter to the IAHC

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Dave,

  Please read below your comments.

Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> At 10:15 AM -0800 12/29/96, John Palmer wrote:
> >WHY would anyone want to be a registry when there is NO INCENTIVE?
> >
> >How does a registry make any money when it doesnt own a particular
> >resource to sell??
> 
>         This, I fear, is a long-standing refrain used to justify
> proprietary technology over open technology.  Profit margins for
> proprietary products tend to be higher than for open, since the pressure
> for open systems comes directly from customers seeking alternative sources
> and lower prices.

  I agree with this asessment of open technology and proprietery
software
in general.  Good point.
> 
>         But the claim that there is no reasonable business case remaining,
> when exclusive control over the core resource is removed, suggests a
> failure to understand the fundamental nature of a service business.

  I cannot compleatly go along with this statment however.  The point
of GOOD buisness to the buisness is profit.  So the removal in this
case of exclusive control of a gTLD is deluting the potential value
of that resource to some degree.  In other words if one has the 
only service in town for a demand service than he/she has greater
profit potential than if he had a competator.

Regards,

> 
> d/
> 
> (read the last line, please)
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