Re: ISPs as stakeholders

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 10:45:20PM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
[...]
> *	CORE's byzantine legal defenses get dismantled:

Just out of curiosity, what happens to Nominet if someone lands a 
successful $100,000,000 lawsuit against it?  An answer that the 
British legal system  wouldn't allow that is not an answer -- the 
American legal system would.

What happens to NSI if there is a successful similar suit?  (I recall 
discussions in the past about shielding that NSI may have gotten 
through being a government contractor, but I forget the conclusions.)

What happens to name registrations if CORE is crushed by a lawsuit, 
or is enjoined from undertaking more registrations because of the 
actions of a single registrar?  What happens to the stability of the 
net if some court in Virginia is persuaded that CORE should be 
prevented from distributing whois information, or zone updates?

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