Re: ISPs as stakeholders

[John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.com>]

(...)
>  What happens
>  if legitimate Domain Name Registries
>  such as Internic, Alternic and others
>  are frozen out of the process to 
>  create some successor monopoly to
>  Internic and Network Solutions?
(...)

Your other inflamatory statements are just that (inflamatory) as usual,
however as regards to this particular one, Internic is just a name, not a
registry, and nobody is doing ANYTHING to Alternic or eDNS or any of the
others.
These last ones had always stated that they had an alternative (hence the
ALTER in alternic, understand it now?) to the established roots.
Their alternative is alive and well (as alive and well as its always been),
and people will continue to have the right to point their nameservers any
which way they want.
The argument of "open up the IANA roots" is just a canard to cover the fact
that the "alternatives" have garnered no support (consensus) worth crying
out about (remember, only about 0.5% of the internet can resolve those
others, however 100% of the internet is free to resolve them should they
choose to do so. Thing is the internet doesn't seem to want to).

Yours, John Broomfield