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Amen Brother! You would think, with all of us being network operators, or at least claiming to be as such, that we would work on ways to *reduce* the brokenness of the modern-day Internet instead of reducing more brokenness to it. Do you guys *really* like to work that hard? Don't we have enough things to fix? New.net must die!!! ---------------------------------------------- Original Message From: "Stephen Kowalchuk"<[email protected]> Subject: Re: new.net Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:14:30 -0500 > >Sounds to me like at its core new.net is taking advantage of the obvious >frustration that some of us feel with the techno-political "establishment", >using the discontent as a springboard to an eventual hijack of the root zone. I >don't think they have any intention of seeing themselves as an alternate. It >seems the ticket is to muddle the issues by labeling every argument for one root >"political", thus "unsavory" and offensive to many folks' more-egalitarian >vision of the Internet. > >new.net offers "freedom from oppression", but in its own right is nothing but an >old spin on an old play. Create enough FUD about the establishment, then get a >few partners to commit to the "new.net" namespace, and if you have enough >subscribers you can negotiate with ICANN. > >It seems new.net is taking lessons from Microsoft: > - berate the common standards > - create lots of dust > - rape the standards of their essence > - create exclusivity with proprietary extensions to the standards > - appeal to the lowest common denominators of human expression (in this > case, .xxx says it all) > - partner with like-minded souls seeing the same pot of gold at the end > - fight like hell to get a critical mass of subscribers to the idea > (through any means possible) > - negotiate the altered standards back into the mainstream > >Why do this? Money. Position. Microsoft is an excellent model for building a >profitable business. > >Only one problem. Rape the DNS, and the whole house comes down. You might as >well be running IRC. > > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Stephen Kowalchuk [email protected] >Diamonex, Incorporated > >...learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning >emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable >way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, [it] >will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning. -- Roger Fouts >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _____________________________________________ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.com
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