RE: Xenophobia and sticking to the point

[Roberto Gaetano <Roberto.Gaetano@etsi.fr>]

Jim,
Thanks for the recap.

You wrote:
>1	If CORE wants to run a .shop/firm/whoopsy registry out of Geneva,
>	who cares?  The market will sort out whether this is an attractive
>	proposition.

I think we all agree on that.
Let's keep 2. for the end and go to:
>3	If CORE wants to have all rights over all gTLDs forever, that 
>	is, to me at least, simply unacceptable.
>
>2	If CORE wants to take over com/net/org, whose registrants are 
>	overwhelmingly American, then that takeover needs to be justified,
>	and any transfer of the rights of this huge block of customers
>	to a distant jurisdiction needs to be justified.
>
>We were talking about point 2: whether CORE should be able to transfer
>the com/net/org registry to Geneva.
>
>The world doesn't need to replace NSI's monopoly with a cartel in Geneva.  
>
>Several COREs run along different models and located in different parts
>of the world would be a good replacement for CORE.  Even a duopoly, with
>NSI retaining com/net/org and CORE running the rest of the gTLDs, would
>be superior to CORE all by itself.
>
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>Jim Dixon                                                 Managing Director
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