If the Commerce Department ruled that new.net threatened the very core of how the Internet works (which it does -- resolver libraries and nameservers were written to the spec, and the spec said that ONE zone was owned and managed by ONE entity -- and multiple root zones were never included in that concept), then I could see it legally working.

-Mat Butler
Speaking for myself, not my employer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Radabaugh - Amplex [mailto:mark@amplex.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:19 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Statements against new.net?

>
> BUT if representatives from a dozen or a hundred ISPs meet
> together and
> choose to blackhole new.net for the explicit purpose of
> running them out
> of business, and then do so, they would be in violation of US
> anti-trust
> laws.
>
> -- David

But what if a quasi-government organization (ICANN) explicitly blessed
the concept of banning alternate roots :-)    Now there is a can of
worms...

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 833-3635