Re: [ga] WLS

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

Bret and all assembly members,

Bret Fausett wrote:

> eric@hi-tek.com wrote:
> > I understand part of your consternation here but I am finding it difficult to
> > believe you have not formed opinions.  Innovation should clearly be at all
> > levels. Monopolies should clearly be at no level.
>
> I *have* formed an opinion on what works best for consumers. In my mind,
> there's no question that WLS is a superior service because it makes expiring
> domain names broadly available to regular consumers and reduces uncertainty.

  There is not reduction in uncertainty Bret, in fact quite the contrary.  With
WLS it's whom gets in the queue at what ever price, perhaps escalating to boot,
that has the best shot at getting the soon to be expired Domain Name.
How does that reduce uncertainty?

>
> (I've followed the arguments closely over the last few months, and I haven't
> seen any compelling argument to convince me otherwise.)

  Well than, you have not been following very closely, or you have an
alternative motive for taking the position that you seem to be taking here...

>
>
> I haven't formed an opinion on whether the benefits of a uniform WL service
> are so great that they trump the legitimate business interests of registrars
> in offering competing WL services. For example, few would argue that
> assignment of unique names has to occur at the registry-level in order to
> prevent name conflicts.

  I would argue this Brett, and have successfully.

> The benefit of unique name assignments trumps the
> ability of registrars to register whatever names customers request.

  It should, yes. but it doesn't have to...  I think choice trumps here...

> I don't
> think the benefits of WLS are as great as the benefits of unique name
> assignments, but are they great enough to justify the service? I don't know.
> That's the hard question.

  This is not even the relevant question as to WLS and dealing with the
obvious delete and transfer problem.  So answering it is not difficult at all
really.  One of several answers is, WLS does not completely address
the delete problem even if in a unique name assignment environments
if multiple TLD name spaces are in existence.  Nor does it solve or
even adequately address the IP/TM concerns.

>
>
>      -- Bret
>
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