[ga] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] One suggestion for .ORG TF participant!

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

James and all,

  Jamie, your point here is well taken by many I am sure.  Yes it is obvious
from the recent Lynn announcement that they are "setting up the deck" in
favor of the ISOC to get the nod for .ORG TLD name space.  So yes it is
a "Beauty Contest" with the winner already pretty much decides based
upon an indirect conflict of interest..  But not to get too discouraged
or disillusioned just yet Jamie...

James Love wrote:

> Ok Kent.  Fine.  Require the non-profits to put up $35 thousand dollars to
> entry the .org lottery, knowing that this will be a beauty contest, decided
> by the board.   Then be real suprised when nearly ever bid is some deal
> where an operator is putting up the money, that the .org domain holders
> don't benefit from real cometition among operators.....   And give it to the
> non-profit with the most friends on the board, or whatever....     You guys
> have the votes, you have the staff, etc...... do what you want.
> Jamie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kent Crispin" <kent@songbird.com>
> To: <discuss@icann-ncc.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 8:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] One suggestion for .ORG TF participant!
>
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:30:22PM -0400, James Love wrote:
> > >       Well, actually in the second stage, the "choice" could be the Non-
> > > Profit, subject to approval by ICANN's due diligence, or the other way
> > > around -- ICANN could pick the operator, subject to approval by the non-
> > > profit.  I sort of like the second approach, if it was done by a
> > > competitive bid among qualified bidders.  That way the non-profit could
> not
> > > possibily be a front for the operator.
> >
> > What happens if the non-profit and ICANN can't come to an agreement on
> > the operator? While combining the operator and sponsor up front might
> > open more doors for collusion, not allowing them to connect early on
> > has significant drawbacks, as well.
> >
> > Moreover, one thing that has become abundantly clear here is that there
> > are non-profits that are aggressively and proudly clueless about
> > operational concerns, and working through the exercise of finding an
> > operator up front would tend to weed those out.
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> > Technical Support Manager, ICANN            lonesome."
> > crispin@icann.org,kent@songbird.com                    -- Mark Twain
> >
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