Re: ISPs as stakeholders

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

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Dave Crocker / IMC wrote:

> >This is the sort of totally unreasonable response that typifies this
> >discussion and feeds the distrust that pervades many Internet circles.
> 
> Jim, the problem is that your approach to this topic has invited this sort
> of response.
> 
> You did not begin by asking questions. Worse you did not pursue the
> question as a general issue but, rather, as a particular deficiency of
> having Switzerland as a venue.
> ...

and so you ramble on, saying nothing whatsoever about the issue at hand,
just indulging in the usual ad hominem attack.


I have now said consistently for several weeks is that if com/net/org
are to be handed over to CORE, it should be closely scrutinized, and a 
reasonable price exacted.  Given the fact that something like 97% of 
.COM registrants are America, the transfer of the .COM registry out of 
the USA must be justified.  If .COM must be transferred into another
legal venue, the venue must certainly be scrutinized.

Is it at all possible to address the issues?

*	why should the .COM registry, nearly all of whose registrants 
	are in the USA, be transferred out of North America?

*	if the .COM registry is to be moved to another jurisdiction, 
	is Switzerland a good choice?
 
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Jim Dixon                                                 Managing Director
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