Re: Structuring the Root

[Owain Vaughan <owain at AXA.CO.UK>]

> 
> On Thursday, April 23, 1998 5:31 AM, Owain Vaughan[SMTP:owain at axa.co.uk] wrote:
> <snip>
> @
> @Nope, a fairer way of doing it would be to take away any financial
> @or commercial incentives to having desirable domain names.. You'd then
> @find that all the current interest in running one's own registry would
> @mysteriously evaporate.
> 
> Will you also be proposing to remove the financial incentives to have a
> monopoly on leasing/selling IP addresses ? (ala ARIN, RIPE and APNIC)
 
Regional providers should be not-for-profit, so there should be no
financial incentives anyway.

> Will you be proposing to remove the financial incentive of buying bandwidth
> in bulk on strategic connections and reselling portions of it downstream to
> people that have not secured the strategic links ? (ala NSPs and ISPs)

People should be able to get whatever bandwidth they want either via
a regional reseller, or direct from the regional provider (which as a
non-for-profit, shouldn't have a financial motive)

> Finally, will you be proposing to remove the financial incentives for
> developing web sites for companies that need the same basic layout and cgi
> scripts ?

Erm, I fail to see what any of this has got to with my original point of
functional DNS names. You can go to whoever you want for design services,
or (gosh) do it yourself.

> If you do all of these things...you might bankrupt the industry...
> what's the point ?
 
Not at all.. the infrastructure is a resource, and should be treated in
a not-for-profit way. What people do with that infrastructure (design,
marketing etc) is up to them and they can make as much money as they want,
but as far as the the infrastructure is concerned, don't allow people
with commercial motives to run it - simple as that.

Owain