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Re: Statements against new.net?
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:48:26 -0500
In message <Pine.GSO.4.31.0103141436410.9269-100000 () meron openu ac il>, Rafi Sa dowsky writes:
Hi Hank In this particular case ".XXX" as "generic" suffix is probably not a good choice - I'm sure someone would pay a lot of money for this particular gTLD ...
I think that that was Hank's point -- the owner of the One True .xxx will make lots of money.
Regards Rafi On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:I fail to see how RFC2826 is in any way "political".Upon careful re-readingit boils down to: If you use one root, everybody agrees what things look like. If you use multiple roots, what people will see depends on which root theyask.How is this political?It isn't, but since these cyber-carpetbaggers have failed on the technical end to get their way, they figure if they can turn it into a political issue then they can involve their clueless congressman to jump in and make all sorts of investigations and subcommittees and perhaps they will end up with the pseudo-jackpot of a .xxx suffix in their hands. -Hank
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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- RE: Statements against new.net?, (continued)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mathias Koerber (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? David Charlap (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mark Radabaugh - Amplex (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Edward S. Marshall (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Ron Snyder (Mar 15)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mathias Koerber (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Marshall Eubanks (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Shawn McMahon (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 14)