[98606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Aug 14 00:49:39 2007
Date: 14 Aug 2007 03:21:20 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0708131912090.21180@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Cc: christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>I picked on example, there have been plenty of examples in the past of
>folks just barely able to come up with 7$/yr for domain registration and
>using donated hosting for their non-profit thing.
I have my doubts imagining someone who is able to afford $500 for a
computer, but not $10 for a domain, but even if we grant that such
people exist, why is it essential for them to use a 2LD rather than
one of the free 3LDs that are widely available?
> I think the root isue is: there is consumer protection today in the
> purchase system, do we want to remove that in the future. Or do we
> want to find another method to crack down on this problem without
> hurting consumers?
This is an unanswerable question because it is based on the false
assumption that the current abusive speculation does not hurt
consumers.
R's,
John
