Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>]

> At 1:12 PM -0600 12/30/96, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >> On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Leo Smith wrote:
> >>
> >Oh really?
> >
> >How about the people who hold the DBM tables for the registries?
> >
> >Note how the designation of who gets to do that (and how much they get to
> >charge registries for the service) is conspicuously absent?
> >
> >I wonder why...
> >
> >Uh huh.
> 
> Look, Karl, we're trying to get governments out of the way, and let
> business models fund the continuing development of the Internet.

Oh really?  Certainly doesn't look like *competition* will be present in the
holding of those DBM tables.

> But there are lots of business models, not just the ones that
> the most vocal people on this list such as yourself are espousing.

Correct.  I recognize business models when I see them.  This is one of
setting up yet another monopoly.

> An organization (CORE) operating under public disclosure laws
> can put out an RFP for a service to hold the DBM tables for the
> registries.  Bidders would be required to do whatever it takes to make
> that service reliable.  The cost would be lowest bidder who was
> qualified to do the job.  That's a business model.  What's wrong
> with it?  It's the way most nonprofit organizations work.

Again, where is it said:

1)	That CORE must operate under FULL public scrutiny?  The IAHC
	certainly hasn't, and some members have taken to *refusing to 
	answer questions put to them* in a public forum.

	I've also yet to see the minutes of any of the IAHC meetings 
	in a public place, or a repository of the comments files with 
	the IAHC during their deliberation process.

	Public disclosure?  Yeah, right.

2)	That CORE will actually put out an RFP?

3)	That the members of CORE haven't already been pretty much
	pre-determined?

In fact, I don't see ANYTHING specific-enough in the draft to insure that
CORE will actually operate in anything approaching a neutral fashion.

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