Re: Tired of Waiting

[jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> 

    Originally, and the fubar that IOD stepped into, IANA even had a TLD
    registry set up and running. Chris even officially used the published
    process. >poof< Suddenly there was no process and the check was returned.
    Then the scum-bags at CORE decided that the WEB name was so neat that
    they wanted it, since IOD obviously couldn't use it. Does IANA help
    defend IOD? They do not.

The fly in this particular complaint (which does have a smidgen of merit, but
let's not get into the grubby details, they don't matter for this larger, and
much more important point) is that:

+++ New TLD's should not be new "Oklahoma Land Rushes" for entrepreneurs who
+++ are out to make a quick buck.

In other words, it's *critical* that the *Registry* for a new TLD be operated
as a public trust, not as someone's way to "make money fast".

(If you don't see why for-profit, but competing, Registries don't work, ask
yourself how you'd feel once your snappy URL http://my_name.new_tld/foo/bar
is embedded in 10,000 web pages world-wide, and your for-profit Registry then
ups the rate to $1,000 per month....)

>From this observation - that for-profit Registries are a bad idea - one can
see why it was not wholly unreasonable that the original "published process"
was withdrawn.

	Noel