RE: ISPs as stakeholders

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> You wrote:
> >....... 
> >they have to trust to the honesty of a group of entrepreneurs who do 
> >business out of an impregnable fortress in a far-away land.
> 
> Far away from where?

>From most of their customers.

The clear goal of CORE is to gain control of COM/NET/ORG, almost 
all of whose customers are in North America, with the vast majority
being in the USA.
 
> My work and life experience in the States have tought me that the
> average American thinks about overseas in pretty much the same way the
> old Romans thought about what was outside their empire: "Hic sunt
> leones".

Oh yes indeed ;-)

> Probably, a different attitude would be more appropriate by
> (self-defining?) hi-tech operators in the ages of the Global Society.

Would anyone on the POC care to dispute my assertion that Switzerland
was chosen because it is subject neither to the laws of the United 
States nor those of the European Union?  

Would any knowledgeable lawyers care to comment upon the assertion that
non-profit organizations in Switzerland are very difficult to sue?

I don't think that Switzerland was chosen because of its role in 
the hi-tech Global Society.  I think that it was chosen for centuries-
old reasons.  

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