Re: Why ICANN should think (Re: Re[2]: [ga-roots] RE: [ga] Can you give me some arguments, why is it a bad idea?)

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Marc,

Friday, June 01, 2001, 5:45:22 PM, Marc Schneiders wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, at 17:18 [=GMT-0700], William X. Walsh wrote:
>> Friday, June 01, 2001, 6:33:46 AM, Bruce James wrote:
>> 
>> > ""another root "" Would be asking for trouble from the other Alternate
>> > Roots. The whole idea is to come to an "understanding" with the Alternate
>> > Roots so we can co-exist.
>> 
>> The alternative roots are in competition with each other, Bruce.

> Are they really 'at large'? Some may be. Most are not, and if
> they are, it has nothing to do with making money, this
> competition. There is a lot of work on the way moreover to get rid of
> the very few colliding TLDs.

No one said it had to be about money.

>> There is no reason for competitive root systems to come to any
>> accommodation with competitors, unless they gain something from the
>> relationship.

> Stability, stability, stability?

ICANN has that without the alt.roots.  ICANN has that by completely
ignoring them.

The reason is because collectively even they don't have enough
visibility or use that if they were closed down completely tomorrow it
would be a serious enough incident to threaten any kind of stability.


> Did I just hear that the ccTLDs want 3 board seats? Things are
> moving. It might get messy.

Don't assume too much.  :)

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