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Username: fabrcop
Date/Time: Thu, November 16, 2000 at 5:59 PM GMT
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Subject: TERRIBLE news from the Board! 10 am: Afilias in the preliminary basket instead of IOD, for .web!!!

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    Touton: More on Image Online Design. Public and staff comments encouraged IODesign to accelerate timetable for making their multiple-registrar systems available sooner, perhaps in as little as 30 to 60 days. Question of whether such an amendment is in order after the application is submitted. NSI’s experience suggests this may be harder and more time consuming than IOD now suggests. Also, questions of financing levels – no commitment of using all available credit lines for this business, as principals also available in an auto dealership which may require credit.
       1.   Fitzsimmons: Affilias and Neustar seem more serious about opening the market and providing competition with .com.
       2.   Cerf: Impressed by Affilias, with shared registry and 19 registrars. Comfortable with Affilias in the tentative basket.
       3.   Roberts: Values of Affilias are consistent with my community. Tucows as a real-time registry is intriguing.
       4.   Dyson: NSI Registrar is a member of Affilias. Are NSI Registrar and Registry separate? Will they be?
           • Touton: NSI last year received a four-year registry agreement, renewable for another four years if they divested the registrar and registry businesses by May 2001. They seem to intend to comply with that to get the four year intention. Expect significant separation of ownership shortly.
           • Dyson: Even so, NSI registrar a big player. Affilias’s co-op status is appealing because it’s different. But it doesn’t foster competition in the sense that we’ve created a competitive market only to see cooperatives formed. Would need some strong and binding language to prevent, say, NSI from changing its charter to buy half or some such. Gives me a queasy feeling
           • Touton: Sympathize with much of what you say. This “Nominet cooperative model” is neutral, allows smaller companies to get involved in the registry business. Affilias was open to all accredited registrars, and it is ICANN which accredited NSI Registrar. Board could select Affilias contingent on certain changes to make Affilias more like Nominet.
           • Cerf: And Affilias continues to be open to additional participants. Reluctant to set arbitrary conditions; don’t want to micromanage. Should let business models play themselves out. This seems a pretty good arrangement.
           • Dyson: Affilias is open. Not sure that enhances Affilias’s quality.
           • Murai: Competing with .com requires technical ability. Need to emphasize this, or competition can’t exist.
           • Cerf: Can’t have competition among incompetents. A collection of registrars might well want to assure themselves that their registry works properly. Registrars will invent new features to attract registrants, but all registrars need a reliable registry. And this registry is separate from the one run by NSI.
           • Touton: Tucows to be the registry, based on experience as “sub-registry” for .com et al.
           • Cerf: Put this in the basket.
           • Fitzsimmons: Had Esther’s concerns when I read through the Executive Summary. But ownership structure seems appropriate. Have seem similar models work. Tucows is a strong choice. Can put this in the basket for now.
           • Touton: Affilias into basket.
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