Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] RE: "livability"

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Milton,

What, exactly, do you think "open themselves up to any and every
registrar" actually means?

Do you think it is something different from:

a) determining that the registrar meets the registry's OT&E requirements?
b) accepting the registrar's deposit towards a current account?
c) processing the registrar's EPP transactions, and decrementing the
registrar's current account?

Weeks ago I suggested to Jeff Neuman, directly after he and Jon Nevett
published their initial effort at a policy statement, that we need not
concern ourselves with shell registrars, only those that actually
engage in primary market activities.

Do you accept that as a legitimate reduction in the universe of
registrars which a new registry must "open themselves up to"? If not,
why not?

Eric