On Thu, 29 May 1997, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
It's time you faced it, though you and others may have put a great deal of work into building what the internet has become, so have many others. It doesn't mean that it belongs to you. It doesn't mean that people who are trying to build something now are pirates.
No. It means that people who try to take a public resource and make it a private cash cow ARE pirates. I challenge you to show one email, any email (or any other verifiable piece of info) anywhere in which Paul has claimed to own the net.
even be a little bit afraid that some of them might succeed. But why is their input LESS valuable than yours, and who are you to make this judgement?
He isn't. The Internet community is, and that community probably values Paul's input because of his track record and his demonstrable talent and insight into issues :)
Take a good look in the mirror and decide, do you want to work with others or do you want to dictate to others? Then please let us know, we may need to ignore you in the future.
Ignore whomever you choose to ignore. I think you'll find that Paul (and others, certainly) are concerned with working inside a framework which is most beneficial to the Internet community at large. DNS pirates like the eDNS/uDNS/AlterNIC crowd are not, thay're interested in producing a perception of power and a stream of revenue for themselves.