Re: ISPs as stakeholders

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 06:33:25PM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
[...]
> 
> If a court in Virginia were to shut down CORE, the other 200+ registries
> in the world would continue to run.  

If a court in Virginia were to shut down NSI tomorrow, for 3 months,
let's say, the other 200 registries would continue to run, but
nonetheless, significant damage would be done to many companies 
around the world.

> > > On the other hand, I personally do not understand why anyone would do 
> > > business with a company that operates behind such elaborate legal 
> > > barriers.
> > 
> > You must live in a cave somewhere, then.
> 
> This must be wit.  
> 
> It isn't common sense.

It's reality.  In fact you, Jim Dixon, deal with many different 
entities on a frequent basis that have far more "byzantine" legal 
environments than CORE.

>  
> > Furthermore, end-users do business with a registrar, not
> > CORE.  They can sue the registrar.
> 
> The registrars do not control the database.

Sure they do.  Nobody else can enter or delete data from the database. 

> > Finally, if the end-users don't like the legal environment surrounding
> > CORE they can vote with their feet.  If nobody registers names in the
> > CORE database it will go out of business. 
> 
> How exactly does this square with the statement from Bob Shaw earlier
> today that CORE is to have control of all gTLDs?  It is quite obvious 
> that the intention is that there should be no alternative, so that 
> people can't vote with their feet.

That's the future.  I was speaking of now.  If nobody registers names
in the CORE database, CORE will not be perceived as a viable home for
.com, or anything else.  But my statement was just a strawman, I admit.
People already *are* voting with their feet -- for CORE.

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