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>From: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [IFWP] What I would have said...
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:06:28 -0400 (EDT)
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>At 05:26 PM 7/23/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>Karl,
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>>Very good document, indeed.
>>
>>Let me state my POV on subject #2 (I have objections also on #1, but as this
>>has been discussed several times, all readers know where our positions
>>differ, and there's no need to bore them with another thread).
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>>I have nothing in principle against multiple roots, I just fail to
>>understand how this could be a better system than a common root under public
>>trust.
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>Simple. That's unstable. Not everybody wants it, so, it'll be supplanted
>and will be the "government controlled, TM controlled root that knows about
>a few new tlds".
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>We've been through this before in the Usenet namespace. When the
>Alt.* groups were created, there was hue and cry "it's not part of
>usenset... corporate management will never let is pass those groups
>through here... death of usenet predicted"
>
>Originally alt hed very spotty distribution as it was "outside
>the system", but, poeple simply persevered. Reid snuck alt into
>decwrl and within a couple of years it was everywhere. Try selling
>news access and nt carrying alt. You'll lose customers to the
>place across the infohighway that does.
>
>Back 3 or 4 years ago when the IAHC crew kept staying IANA had
>authority over the root, period, people used to say "the emperor
>has no clothes!", and with ICANN doing the the things it's doing
>it makes my job so much easier; the emperor not only has no
>clothes, he's drunk and utterly strak raving mad.
>
>It's going better than I'd expected.
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