Re: PAB The Multiple Monopoly Approach

Bob Helfant (bhelfant@globecomm.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:27:35 -0500

Calling something a public resource doesn't change anything. MontBlanc has
the monopoly over the sale and manufacture of MontBlanc pens. Cross has
the monopoly over the sale and manufacture of Cross pens. I think that
pens are a public resource. Where would we be without them? Each company
has a monopoly over it's product/service. Are you comfortable calling them
"multiple monopolies?"

Bob Helfant

At 05:30 PM 2/27/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Multiple monopolies is the only way in which the approach in the GP can be
>described. When a company has complete unregulated control (or even
>regulated) over a public resource (a TLD), it is called a MONOPOLY, and the
>US and the European Union have very strong laws to avoid such a thing,
>which would automatically be applied if the GP went through, creating total
>chaos in the Internet. If the USG forced such a thing, it would probably
>result in fragmentation of the Internet.