Re: [ga] Registrants

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,
 
What you are describing is what registrants take advantage of and market. Not 
what they build. Not what they design. The act of registering is the act of 
buying the rights to the use of a domain name that exists within the system you 
describe. Not building that system.
 
This is not a value judgment it is just an "it is what it is".  Now registrants 
might go out and do marvelous work as engineers or scientists or social 
scientists but that has nothing to do with registering a name.
 
Try this concept on for size, coming from both angles: If you want something 
you have never had before you should try something you have never done 
before;;; and Insanity by definition is the doing of the same thing over and 
over again and expecting a different result.

--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Andrew McMeikan <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Andrew McMeikan <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ga] Registrants
To: "ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 11:05 PM




Really Hugh?
Registrants provide nothing.

???
Well lets packup, job done, no more providing sites, I'll go scrub
out any software I released, get rid of any writtings, pull the plugs.

Registrants provide nothing.

Apparently.

What is a registrant?  Hmm lets see,  to make it easy for others to
locate their computer, they co-operate in a naming scheme to avoid
duplicate hostnames or long!routing!information

once upon a time it was a host file, then DNS, then it cost money
and still, in the spirit of co-operating, to provide this convenient
co-operative access and a great big internetworked link up of computers.

but now it seems
Registrants provide nothing.
so I guess I'll go back to fido-net and you can route my email
through region 55, zone 3 , I'll have to get back to you on the node.

Excuse my venting

Hugh Dierker wrote:
> You both are demanding and dreaming of something that no one has earned.
> The huge corporations make money off the internet but pay for their
> seat.  The governments pay for infrastructure and whatnot, and
> preseumably represent their citizens. The consumer pays by entering into
> commerce on the Net.
> Registrants provide nothing. They buy and use, or they buy and
> speculate.  What is it that gives them the rights they demand for free?