Re[2]: [ga] Re: Board descisions

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

Hello Dave,

Sunday, March 11, 2001, 5:04:14 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:

> My own impression is that the proposed contract embodies a superior set of
> trade-offs.  It is vastly imperfect, of course, and carries probable 
> downsides, but appears to define a more balanced relationship than the 
> current contract.

Let's examine this,then.

Under the new contract:
1.  Verisign gets .com forever (unless they really screw up, since the
presumption in the future will be to their benefit) and gets to keep
the #1 domain registrar in the world.

2. net/org, the 2nd and 3rd largest TLDs (which since the competitive
registrar system started have seen a tremendous growth rate) would be
spun off, but with the presumption that they would no longer be
unrestricted gTLDs, and thus not real competition for .com any longer.


Where is this more balanced than the current contract?

Please specify exactly where you think this is more balanced.

The current contract requires them to spin off the registrar, and lets
them keep com/net/org for a set period of time, after which they do
NOT have a presumption of status quo, and so thus they have to
maintain a high level of performance and service in order to justify
their keeping the registry.

That sounds a lot more fair and balanced to me, and it also sounds a
lot more likely to be of benefit to the internet community at large,
and better espouse the principles of competition in the domain market.

So back up your statements with some facts, please, Dave.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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