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Re: Statements against new.net?

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Mar 14 09:05:13 2001

In message <[email protected]>, Rafi Sa
dowsky writes:
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>Hi Hank
>
> In this particular case ".XXX" as "generic" suffix is probably not a good
>choice - I'm sure someone would pay a lot of money for this particular
>gTLD ...

I think that that was Hank's point -- the owner of the One True .xxx 
will make lots of money.

>
>Regards
>	Rafi
>
>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
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>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 [email protected] wrote:
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>> > I fail to see how RFC2826 is in any way "political".Upon careful re-readin
>g
>> > it boils down to:
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>> > If you use one root, everybody agrees what things look like.
>> >
>> > If you use multiple roots, what people will see depends on which root they
> ask.
>> >
>> > How is this political?
>>
>> It isn't, but since these cyber-carpetbaggers have failed on the technical
>> end to get their way, they figure if they can turn it into a political
>> issue then they can involve their clueless congressman to jump in and make
>> all sorts of investigations and subcommittees and perhaps they will end up
>> with the pseudo-jackpot of a .xxx suffix in their hands.
>>
>> -Hank
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		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb