Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

At 0:56 +0300 31/12/96, Dick desJardins wrote:

>
>Look, Karl, we're trying to get governments out of the way, and let
>business models fund the continuing development of the Internet.
>
>But there are lots of business models, not just the ones that
>the most vocal people on this list such as yourself are espousing.
>
>An organization (CORE) operating under public disclosure laws
>can put out an RFP for a service to hold the DBM tables for the
>registries.

What country for public disclosure laws....? Botswana Law for Public
Disclosure?

> 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.
>
>The only thing that would prevent it from working is if nobody
>wants to be a registry.  Not likely.
>
>The issue here seems to be taking a public resource and making
>it into a private domain.  Who says that we the people of the

Perry ( informally on behalf of IANA) have maintained that it is ok to
delegate to a goverment and then  relinquish control of a public resource.

The real point is that whoever owns and controls the root servers cannot
never really relinquish control. They can make a delegation under terms and
conditions, and if they are not continually met, as the owner of root, it
is easy to get that TLD back.

>Internet -- the users -- want that to happen?  If the top level domain
>space is an international public resource, and if we the international
>people of the Internet don't want it to be used except under our
>advice and consent -- using appropriate public organizations and
>boards of trustees and disclosure and so on to make it happen --
>what's wrong with that?
>
>For example, if the people of the United States don't want to allow
>logging on some of our land, don't we have the right to do that without
>being called socialists?  (Not that being socialist is good or bad,
>but they're OUR TREES!! not some private interest!!)
>

Incorrect. The trees belong to who owns the land. That argument might lead
to houses being decalred a public trust and you could not paint your house
yellow because Public Trust and commitees decreed that yellow houses are
sinful.

The Goverment of the US auctions the airwaves in a public and open fashion,
to a single entity. I have still not seen any compelling argument that says
shared registries are good or better. Many things in this world were under
public trust and allocated to a single entity, and on the whole, if the
process is open , and the rules of delegation are strict, and the
operational contstraints are correct and detailed and adhered too, then it
is fine.

Try telling your local NBC affiliate that he has to share his airwave with
ABC CBS and Ted Turner, as well as the Playboy channel!

Kevin
Speaking for no one


>Dick desJardins, speaking for myself

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