[35623] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathias Koerber)
Wed Mar 14 01:29:36 2001
From: "Mathias Koerber" <mathias@koerber.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:00:22 +0800
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> > And.. if you let new.net do it then every other capitalist in the =
world
> > will start doing it and then the Internet will become disfunctional, =
and
> > what will that achieve?=20
>=20
> Uhhh, so what if they do? Nobody is forcing you to use new.net, or =
ORSC
> or TINC or whoever, or even setup your own roots with the "pick of the =
> bunch" from ORSC or TINC or whoever.
>=20
> If you don't use the alternative roots, you're not affected by their=20
> existance... so you can just pretend they don't exist and live life =
in
> your 2826 compliant happy world.
Oh yes I am (or may (will ?!)) be, because it does not depend on which =
root
I am using, but which root anyone wanting to send me email is using, as =
with multiple
roots there is potential that email sent by them (or though them) is =
either not going
to make it (becausethey or an intermediate site cannot resolve my email =
address)
or to someone else (because there is a duplication of domains).
Same goes for web etc.
The larger damage is going to be the legal fallout when multiple =
'owners' of the
same domain (owned by different roots) start fighting for the right to =
'their' name.
It will take many courts many years to decide that, with decisions even =
worse and diverse
than are right now coming out of the UDRP. Moreover, it will take just =
to decide on
which courts have jurisdiction (or if a court declares itself competent =
to make owners, registries
etc in other jurisdictions comply).
This is a can of worms we should *not* open. The only ones profiting by =
it would be lawyers,
and I think even they would not really welcome this.=20
Mathias
