For the list's information -- ================================================================== _/ Richard Welykochy mailto:rick§dot.net.au _/ Dot Communications Ltd http://www.dot.net.au/world ================================================================== Return-Path: owner-politech§vorlon.mit.edu Received: from vorlon.mit.edu (somebody§VORLON.MIT.EDU [18.238.0.139]) by warp.ipacific.net.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA19228 for <rick§warp.ipacific.net.au>; Sat, 16 May 1998 01:08:09 +1000 Received: from localhost (bin§localhost) by vorlon.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02708; Fri, 15 May 1998 10:59:12 -0400 Received: by vorlon.mit.edu (bulk_mailer v1.5); Fri, 15 May 1998 10:27:08 -0400 Received: (from majordomo§localhost) by vorlon.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04083 ; Fri, 15 May 1998 10:00:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.well.com (smtp.well.com [206.80.6.147]) by vorlon.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04080 ; Fri, 15 May 1998 10:00:23 -0400 Received: from well.com (nobody§well.com [206.15.64.10]) by smtp.well.com (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA08158 for <politech§vorlon.mit.edu>; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (declan§localhost) by well.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA15979 for <politech§vorlon.mit.edu>; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan§well.com> To: politech§vorlon.mit.edu Subject: FC: pgMedia sues NSI and NSF for antitrust violations Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980515065843.14247D-100000§well.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-politech§vorlon.mit.edu Reply-To: declan§well.com X-Loop: politech§vorlon.mit.edu X-URL: Politech is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ ******* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0%2c1042%2c1995%2c00.html time.com / The Netly News May 15, 19098 While everybody was sitting and waiting for nothing to happen in Washington yesterday, they missed the other antitrust lawsuit. A company called pgMedia wants the right to create its own top level domains (TLDs) for the Internet, to rival .com, .edu. and the four other generic TLDs (gTLDs) controlled by Network Solutions Inc. and the National Science Foundation. pgMedia argues that there are "no technical or functional barriers" to opening up the "root server file" where gTLDs are listed. Paging Spencer Tracy. pgMedia makes the case that the gTLDs constitute an "essential facility," and therefore that NSI and NSF are obligated under antitrust laws to make the root servers open to all comers. Not a new argument, certainly, but a potentially powerful one. Just ask Intel: A court recently ruled that its microprocessor architecture was an "essential facility," like a railroad switching yard. NSI does have some legal recourse, however: Antitrust law says that "the court must take proper account of the monopolist's justifications for denying or restricting access," according to "Antitrust Law and Economics" by Ernest Gellhorn and William Kovacic. In other words, NSI could claim that a gTLD free-for-all would result in sheer chaos. (Forget about netly.com, how about netly.netly?). [...remainder snipped...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo§vorlon.mit.edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Sat May 16 1998 - 02:18:14 UTC
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