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Re: What is this dribble?

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Salvador Vidal wrote:

> >This list is intended for discussion of the gTLD MOU.  Since
> >the publication of the US government Green Paper a large fraction
> >of those interested in DNS have decided that the gTLD MOU is dead,
> >so this list died as well.
> >
> The prolem is not the Green Paper the problem is that the gtld-mou is an
> injust system since it doesnt defend everybody rights.

Oh, it's Friday night on a holiday weekend, so I guess I will play. ;-)

I don't know that the domain name system is the right place to defend
everyone's rights.  And while the gTLD MOU has its serious flaws, I 
really don't know of any practical alternative that is superior to it.
What we are going to get, I fear, is something distinctly inferior: 
a new IANA dominated by the telcos and trademark interests, and Network
Solutions Inc (also known as the InterNIC) running most of the domain
name system as a monopoly.

> Socrates said:
> >The injustice is weak and the justice is strong
> 
> Thats why gtld-mou is so weak, if you develop a just goberment not any
> green paper can destroy it.

Do we want a government for the Internet?
 
> So please dont waste your time with weak systems and begin discusion about
> the general interest of the Internet comunity.

Uhm, why?

Won't the Internet community just take care of itself?
 
> Best Regards,
> 	Salvador Vidal
> 
> P.S. I apologize for my poor english.

No need, sir.  My Spanish is much much worse.

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