Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting (fwd)
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 owen@exodus.net wrote:
This makes the assumption that it is in the best interests of the internet for only profitable or business organizations to control the address space, and that the almighty (insert your favorite currency) is directly tied to the common good.
That is the assumption. While certainly not perfect, it's a much better assumption than [insert your favorite government or government like institution here] knows what's good for you or your organization better than you do.
This assumption is false. Capitalism suffers from a similar derivation of the root problem of socialism. In socialism, there is little or no incentive to achieve, thus productivity suffers. In capitalism, there is lots of incentive, but nothing ties that incentive to the common good or a long-term perspective. Thus, you end up with things like the polution in TX, supposed environmental groups killing fish to keep them on the endangered list, etc. I currently provide free services to a number of non-profit organizations. I would not be able to afford to do that if my address space were commodotized.
So you are saying that I and thousands of other organizations around the world should be forced to provide you resources whether or not they agree with your opinions, goals, or mission? If your for-free services are so compelling, surely you wouldn't have any problem getting contributions without resorting to governmental style force.
The Internet is not a business. The Internet is a tool used by and provided by several businesses and other non-business organizations.
Wrong. There is no "Internet". There are only hundreds of organizations connected together under various arrangements to create a large interconnected infrastructure. A vast majority of those organizations are for-profit businesses.
Many other resources are not simply traded on the open market either. In fact, government rationing of scarce resources is hardly a new thing.
So since it has been proven not to work, we should continue to do it because we fear change? Brandon Ross 404-522-5400 EVP Engineering, NetRail http://www.netrail.net AIM: BrandonNR ICQ: 2269442 Read RFC 2644!
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