Question: Do you only believe in market-oriented solutions to DNS issues, or do you feel that there is room for the kind of spontaneous, open-oriented groups that helped create the Internet itself, such as the IETF, for DNS solutions?

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Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-10-08 21:17:37 The market can solve some issues, such as TLD allocation (I have suggested auctioning TLDs, as many as people can suggest and are interested in having). But the value of spontaneous, open-oriented groups can not be understated. Both the market and open source movement have a role to play in DNS issues. We may need to experiment with both to see in which environments one works better than the other, or in which environments the relationship is complementary. Lawrence Lessig - posted on 2000-10-07 07:01:44 If you mean, do I believe the only solutions are commercial or profit-based? No -- indeed, we must protect the net from the tendency to become purely commercial. But if you mean, do I believe in opening up the space to allow many to compete, then yes. I think IETF does that, even though it is not commercial.