Re: Statements against new.net?

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () cybernothing org>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Scott Francis wrote:

> On or around Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:37:26AM -0800, Patrick Greenwell may have written:
> > Suddenly, I feel like I should be grabbing your hand and engaging in a
> > rousing rendition of "Kumbayah my lord."
> >
> > Rather you or myself like it or not, given the existence of a player
> > that has the capital to make this idea go, the market now has an
> > opportunity to decide for itself. 
>
> Unfortunately, "the market" tends to consist in large majority of 1) users, 
> and 2) management. And we all know how bright those two particular
> segments of the population tend to be.

Well, those are the people defining your paycheck, sure you want to write
them off so quickly? 

> If, as a group, the NANOG readership decides to take a single position on
> anything (ha!), then we could very likely effectively determine in which
> direction "the market" will go. After all, if _nobody's_ customers can access
> new.net's non-sanctioned gTLDs, they can't very well go to another provider
> for such access, and new.net will die the quick death that it deserves.

You might want to take a long, careful, hard look at who has been doing
the sanctioning and how they've been making those decisions before jumping
on the bandwagon. Just a friendly suggestion.