Re: Tired of Waiting

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard@sexton.com>]

At 09:54 AM 7/14/98 -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>    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....)

There is some evidence (see the FTC paper on the subject at the NTIA site) that
the non=profit vs. for-profit issue doesn't make any difference.

None the less, the scenario you cite above is a valid concern. The poeple
who want to run registries that are affiliated with open-rsc have come up
with what is in our opinion the only way to counter that: a more or
mess "good dns keeping" seal of approval with certain guideleines to be adhered
to. One of them is to publish rate and rate increase schedules.


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