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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Statements against new.net?
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Scott Francis wrote: > On or around Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:37:26AM -0800, Patrick Greenwell may have written: > > > > Suddenly, I feel like I should be grabbing your hand and engaging in a > > rousing rendition of "Kumbayah my lord." > > > > Rather you or myself like it or not, given the existence of a player > > that has the capital to make this idea go, the market now has an > > opportunity to decide for itself. > > Unfortunately, "the market" tends to consist in large majority of 1) users, > and 2) management. And we all know how bright those two particular > segments of the population tend to be. Well, those are the people defining your paycheck, sure you want to write them off so quickly? > If, as a group, the NANOG readership decides to take a single position on > anything (ha!), then we could very likely effectively determine in which > direction "the market" will go. After all, if _nobody's_ customers can access > new.net's non-sanctioned gTLDs, they can't very well go to another provider > for such access, and new.net will die the quick death that it deserves. You might want to take a long, careful, hard look at who has been doing the sanctioning and how they've been making those decisions before jumping on the bandwagon. Just a friendly suggestion.
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