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Re: [Internetgovtech] Transition to the web

Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net> Sat, 12 July 2014 02:05 UTC

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On 7/11/14 4:08 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >From a fairness PoV, domain name holders benefit from the existence
> and viability of IETF protocols - without those protocols, there
> would be no Internet traffic. So it's entirely reasonable that
> the cost of the protocol registries is in practice a levy on domain
> name holders. User pays.

Brian,

While Jake, and then Jose, ran the NIC shop at SRI, the contract was 
cost-plus. I only mention this to point out that the "fairness PoV" 
assumes a set of conditions (privatization) that have not been 
continuous over time.

Eric

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