On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:28:53AM -0800, Scott Francis wrote:
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.
Bright or not, these not-so-bright people have a direct impact on your bottom line. Up to you if you want to ignore that, though.
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.
I read this and immediately remembered Michael Dillon; is he still around? There were always interesting discussions about collusion and price-fixing back in the good old days. (I'm referring to the idea that the core Internet operators would collude to drive a relatively new entrant to the field (new.net) out of business. Yes, it's an anal way to look at it. No, IANAL. No, I don't have a point, just reminiscing. ;-) -- Edward S. Marshall <esm@logic.net> http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. ]