[92162] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew2@one.net)
Fri Sep 8 13:51:47 2006
From: <andrew2@one.net>
To: "'joe mcguckin'" <joe@via.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:50:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3C727F46-E6A8-443A-9A85-18B4C9AD985C@via.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0095_01C6D34D.CE0DEF00
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
3) What's wrong with treating assignments like property and setting up a
market to buy and sell them? There's plenty of precedent for this:
Mineral rights, mining claims, Oil and gas leases, radio spectrum.
If a given commodity is truly scarce, nothing works as good as the free
market in encouraging consumers to conserve and make the best use of it.
I think you're dead-on there, but you forget who you're really trying to
convince. It'll happen eventually but in the meantime the greybeards
who were largely responsible for the Internet as we know it (and who by
and large still wield significant influence if not still stewardship)
will be dragged there kicking and screaming from their
academic/pseudo-Marxist ideals, some of whom seem to still resent the
commercialization of the Internet. It's also hard to see the faults in
the system when you are insulated by your position as member of the
politburo.
The flip side of the coin of course is that if you let the free market
reign on IP's, you may price developing countries right off the Internet
which I don't think anyone sees as a desirable outcome. There's sure to
be a happy middle ground that people smarter than I will figure out, and
maybe it takes a silly lawsuit such as this to kick things off.
Andrew Cruse
------=_NextPart_000_0095_01C6D34D.CE0DEF00
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Dus-ascii">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY=20
style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; =
khtml-line-break: after-white-space"><SPAN=20
class=3DApple-style-span=20
style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; =
COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; =
LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px =
0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: =
auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"><SPAN=20
class=3DApple-style-span=20
style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; =
COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; =
LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px =
0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: =
auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2">
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><BR class=3Dkhtml-block-placeholder>3) =
What's wrong with=20
treating assignments like property and setting up a market to buy and =
sell them?=20
There's plenty of precedent for this:<SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT=20
face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006> </SPAN>Mineral=20
rights, mining claims, Oil and gas leases, radio spectrum. <SPAN=20
class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff=20
size=3D2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006> </SPAN>If a given=20
commodity is truly scarce, nothing works as good as the free market in=20
encouraging consumers to conserve and make the best use of it.<SPAN=20
class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff=20
size=3D2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN =
class=3D878024117-08092006></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
color=3D#0000ff size=3D2>I think you're dead-on there, but you forget =
who you're=20
really trying to convince. It'll happen eventually but in the =
meantime the=20
greybeards who were largely responsible for the Internet as we know =
it (and=20
who by and large still wield significant influence if not still=20
stewardship) will be dragged there kicking and screaming from their=20
academic/pseudo-Marxist ideals, some of whom seem to still resent the=20
commercialization of the Internet. It's also hard to see the =
faults in the=20
system when you are insulated by your position as member of the=20
politburo.</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
color=3D#0000ff size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
color=3D#0000ff size=3D2>The flip side of the coin of course is that if =
you let the=20
free market reign on IP's, you may price developing countries right off =
the=20
Internet which I don't think anyone sees as a desirable outcome. =
There's=20
sure to be a happy middle ground that people smarter than I will figure =
out, and=20
maybe it takes a silly lawsuit such as this to kick things=20
off.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
color=3D#0000ff size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D878024117-08092006><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
color=3D#0000ff size=3D2>Andrew=20
Cruse</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>
------=_NextPart_000_0095_01C6D34D.CE0DEF00--
