The Registry Industry

On Monday, April 20, 1998 5:45 PM, Berislav Todorovic[SMTP:BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu] wrote:
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@First off, the proposal tries to connect two administrative antipodes on
@the Internet today: IP address space management (which is a pure technical
@questin) and domain name delegations (which also have an inevitable legal
@component). Let's try to stress out some facts, which describe the current
@situation about reverse domain delegations:
@

If you look at the Registry Industry as if it were the Banking Industry
or the Health Care Industry, you might see that in all three of these
industries there are "administrative antipodes". This is natural and
I do not think that this means one has to take each antipode and
separate it into a different business. In fact, if you do that, the
business may fail.

Examples:
	Can you have a bank with savings but no loans ?
	Can you have a hospital with no pharmacy ?

In any young industry (like the Registry Industry) I think that it
makes more sense to allow independent businesses to have a
wide range of products and services instead of forcing (via regulation
of social pressure) each service into a separate business.

Also, you have to look at the industry and try to determine where
you will get your experienced trustees or stewardship. In the Registry
Industry it is best to turn to the registries. They are in the business
and their businesses are most likely to have personnel who understand
the industry and will be able to be around to support the customers.
In my opinion, this makes better business sense than to force
domain registries into one corner and IN-ADDR.ARPA registries into
another corner when both are basically registries. Why not let
the industry sort this out via natural evolution of the marketplace ?

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI




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