Re: [ga-roots] Two standards

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Hi Eric

I truly love the way you talk.  Really.
It never quite makes sense but it sounds soooo good !!

> When the bully makes an ass out of himself
> he loses some of his power. 

I love it !!

Best regards
Patrick Corliss



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>
To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
Cc: <ga-roots@dnso.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ga-roots] Two standards


> It is not so doom and gloom.  When the bully makes an ass out of himself
> he loses some of his power.  As Michael Powell noted in his interview
> recently, we need less regulation and not more.  It is consumer choices
> which will drive this ether communicated world.  ICANN is really not
> holding up anyone.  Technical and commercial forces are moving as fast as
> they can at 10,000 new users a day- 400 plus per hour.  Catch a movie and
> have a nice dinner and you have just missed over a thousand new
> customers.  ICANN controlling or slowing things down is like Wilbur
> stopping a train wreck.
> 
> Our tiny little company drives over 14 million hits per month, and we do
> not focus on driving hits, we just build them and they come. Do you think
> we could not throw a million or so toward or against an alt root.  ICANN
> is good for discussion, but if you think they control the net and hold
> things up - rethink.
> 
> eric(or has the "names" council given me a new one - oops that is outside
> their scope)
> 
> Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> > Apparently there are two standards in operation. That is if I
> > understand Cochetti some 10 minutes ago on the NC webcast.
> >
> > We should let VeriSign go on with its multilingual testbed, although
> > there is no IETF standard, nor an ICANN board decision regarding
> > non-ASCII domain names. They cannot freeze for two months
> > until the IETF sets a standard. Why? Because otherwise others will run
> > away with it and make the money, in stead of the ICANN backud up
> > companies...
> >
> > However, where there are already TLDs running, for years, in the
> > normal English language ASCII world, there we should protect against
> > outside of ICANN processes. Therefore we ignore the alt roots, new.net
> > and the like. We have a strong enough foot in this market and use
> > ICANN to keep others out. So we do not even want to discuss talking to
> > these others.
> >
> > If ICANN buys this line, it clearly shows that it is just legitimizing
> > some favoured companies.
> >
> > Two standards. The only difference: we have the market already, or we
> > don't. Are we buying this?
> >
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