On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Dean Pemberton wrote:
Dean (I thought sarcastic irony was better than a venomous attack on this occasion)
I'm happy to agree with Dean on this one for the most part. I'm not happy with Jim Higgins' assessment of the history - his view of events differs from mine but let's look at his conclusions/recommendations. Jim Higgins wrote:
Should the very large number of New Zealand businesses who rely on the Net for their existence be fearful?
Yes, they should!
I'd have to say that I'm not sure there are a "very large number" of these businesses and I don't like this fear uncertainty and doubt. So that's one we disagree on.
Should the operation of a utility so essential to New Zealand's economy be left in the hands of people who don't appear to be capable of running it sensibly?
No, it shouldn't!
I'll have to confess that this came as a surprise to me but here I agree with Jim. InternetNZ is open to capture and Domainz is a cash cow - it's making huge profits which are being used to fund non DNS activities for InternetNZ.
It is time that the New Zealand Government took over policy management of the .nz domain, as so many other "aware" governments are doing. The risk is too great to leave it where it is!
And again I agree with Jim - so two out of three isn't a bad hit rate. Having the nz namespace administered by our elected representatives and not by a group of twenty elected by an electorate of less than 200 is something I'd like to see. It might just get other things on the agenda. We seem happy to spend large amounts of money on roads, airlines but not on Internet infraststructure - where's the support for Internet2. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog