Far be it from me to defend ICANN, however, the government issued the
responsibility for delegating TLDs to one entity for a reason (granted they
chose the wrong entity, but thats beside my point). I dont think theres a
person on this list who thinks that ICANN is perfect, but just attempting to
de-facto replace them at the cost of internet integrity isnt much better. To
quote my mother: "Two wrongs do not make a right.". IMHO, if anyone is
guilty of destabilizing the internet it would be new.net, not ICANN. The
attitude you seem to have is one I have seen before. "Who cares about the
standard? We'll make up our own standard and then use business agreements
and the resulting user base to force it to become the accepted standard."
Yeah, thats Microsoft folks. I guess what Im trying to say is that I dislike
new.net's tactics more than I dislike ICANN. I would be interested in what
other people on this list think as my opinion is all of about a day old.
: - )
-matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Greenwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matt Prigge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Guennadi Moukine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: New TLDs working already?
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Matt Prigge wrote:
>
> > That makes me wonder. What happens if ICANN suddenly decides to release
one
> > of the TLDs you have already sold registrations for?
>
> One of ICANNs primary mandates is to preserve Internet stability.
> If ICANN decided TODAY to introducing names that conflict with the names
> we have introduced, they run the risk of interfering with the user
> experience of over 21,000,000 people. At the rate we are gaining adoption,
> by the time they could reasonably add new TLDs the number of users they
> would be affecting will be signficantly higher. Given their mandate
> it wouldn't make any sense for them to do this.
>
> > They wouldn't have to grant the TLD's to new.net would they?
>
> Not at all.
>
> > I may not understand the process by which ICANN does this (as I think
> > many people don't),
>
> Having been present, I'd argue that even ICANN doesn't understand it,
> given the results. ;-)
>
>
>
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