RE: Re[2]: [ga] collisions in namespace (was gTLD Constituency)

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Christopher Ambler [mailto:cambler-dompol@iodesign.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:52 PM
> 
> > ONE director (Hans K.) stated that that would be a good 
> reason to award it
> > to Afilias anyway, Vint Cerf had reservations, it was 
> debated briefly and
> > the majority of the Board decided to back away from such a 
> confrontational
> > decision.
> 
> That same director was dead-set against IOD in part because 
> it proposed
> to be both registry and registrar. Even after pledging to 
> accept registrars
> immediately, that director said that being both a registry 
> and a registrar
> "[went] against everything we've worked for" over the past 2 years.
> 
> That same director then voted for the new Verisign contracts, making
> them both registry and registrar for .com forever.
> 
> Hello?

Simple, that director changed his mind. What you ought to notice is that the
precedent has now been set that the same entity can now be both registry and
registrar. More importantly, the entire BoD has voted on it. Even the ICANN
BoD would have a hard tinme justifying why they have different policies for
each registry. I am sure that DOC would rather have a consistent policy, to
defend with Congress, than individual ad hoc policy negotions.
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