Sidebar re analogy

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@suncan.Sun.COM>]

Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> > You know, I've never been mugged or robbed. Why should I pay for
> > police when its obvious that only a tiny fraction of the population
> > ever has need for them?


Kent Crispin wrote:> 
> Your argument is invalid.  The tiny number of TM conflicts is a
> current fact, without any 60 day wait.  The correct analogy would be
> "I've never been robbed or mugged, and we currently don't have any
> police.  So why should we pay to have them."


  Actually you're both wrong.

  In the analogy, you have the victim, the mugger, police, 
a proportion of the population and costs.
In the NSI-conflict-resolution-policy case you have, respectively, the
domain owner, the challenger, NSI, the courts, a proportion of the
population and costs.

  So is NSI a second police force or an accomplice of the mugger?

  Seriously, though, you don't have enough actors in the analogy
to make it match up, and the equations, if actually written out,
won't demonstrate anything interesting.

--dave (I've been spending too much time writing assertions (:-)) c-b
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