Registries differences

On Tuesday, April 29, 1997 2:36 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at bbnplanet.com] wrote:
@ At 14:17 4/28/97, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ >Once this industry matures, you might be able to
@ >pull them apart...there are pros and cons to doing that...
@ 
@ Hi Jim...  it's always nice to see a familiar name in 
@ the From fields of my inbound mail (of course, seeing
@ the same name can get tiresome after a while... ;-)
@ 
<snip>
@ 
@ I'd much rather keep the discussions (and solutions :-)
@ separate as we're far more likely to get outcomes which
@ are relevant; on the other hand, I can easily see how 
@ globbing everything together makes perfect sense if
@ you're only planning for a superficial treatment of
@ the actual issues involved in registering these very
@ different resources.
@ 
@ /John
@ 

Thanks for your comments John. I fully
understand and would agree with your
position, if the Registry Industry was
populated by large companies like BBN.

Unfortunately, the Registry Industry is
populated with small companies. NSI
used to be one such company. It was
"OK" a few years ago for NSI's people
to do "on the job training" and leverage
domain name registrations into the
empire they now have. Now that NSI
has done this, it appears it is not OK
for other small companies to do this.

I will continue to try to fight for the small
companies that are just getting started
in the Internet. In my opinion, those
people are the future of the Internet.
Any model developed for small companies
could easily be used with large companies.
I am not sure the reverse is the case.

While I might agree that the BBNs and
NSIs of the world could now take the
Internet and divide it up along the lines
that you describe, I will try to make the
point that small companies should be
given a chance. I understand why you
do not want that to happen.

ARIN as an extension of NSI/SAIC and
backed by BBN and other large companies
does not fit the model that I think best
serves the Internet community. I guess
once again we have to agree to disagree.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp

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