At 22:51 17/09/2003 +1200, Keith Davidson wrote:
Steve Phillips wrote:
Imagine if InternetNZ were to do something similar,
No - please - no - don't even imagine it. <shudder>
The useful thing about the InternetNZ model is that all NZ'ers have the ability to control what happens with the .nz namespace. If InternetNZ doesn't obey the rules, listen to the local Internet community and provide an efficient and effective registry, and sufficient outrage ensues, people can be sacked and people can be elected to make things right again.
These are not options available to the .com Internet community.
Which IMHO is how it should be. Why then is the generic Internet domain space (keeping in mind that .us was reserved for US based naming) suddenly belong to an entity to do with as they please ? keeping in mind also that .com, .edu, .org, .net and so on were not "USA reserved" but rather, generic TLD's that grew out of a legacy system and everyone in the world used - surely some hick-arse little corporate suit in the USA cant have the right to suddenly wake up and say "hey, i think I'll screw the Interweb up for everyone today" and proceed to do just that ? If this is the case then surely, if the Internet is to continue to be a viable medium and move on then this sort of thing should have controls such that people _at least_ know in advance that this is about to happen and can prepare for it. Where was the notification ? -- Steve.