Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

["JandL" <jandl@jandl.com>]

> On 2001-03-11 09:57:43 +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> 
> > Going back just to the previous ICANN meeting, I remember you
> > making the remark, a propos the IOD application for .web, that it
> > was an "old way" to conceive the management of a TLD, with no
> > separation between Registry and Registrar. What has changed in few
> > months, and why the DNSO has not participated to the cahnge in
> > polcy?
> 
> Actually, I'd like to quote Hans Kraaijenbrink (in the Scribe's
> words) on this one:
> 
>  "IOD goes against everything we ve worked on the last two
>  years they join registrar and registry, and they have a high
>  price."
> 
And in MDR, he yelled that he was willing to ignore IOD's claim to 
.WEB "knowing they had a functioning registry..."  However, he does 
embody the attitude of the BoD.  It's a shame, because they have 
now opened a Pandora's box.

In actuality, if you were to think ahead a bit, there is no reason 
why a registry/registrar cannot exist and perform well.  If there 
were 100 TLDs, it would not matter.  A registry is automatically a 
monopoly because there is no reasonable techncial method to split 
it up.  With a multitude of TLDs, it would have little meaning, just as 
in any other business.  Every entrepreneurial business is a monopoly 
in that sense.  Many franchise, but still hold the HQ.  If a registry 
brings in additional registrars the goal is accomplished.

IOD has every right to .WEB and its model has worked for five 
years.  ICANN's rejection was arbitrary and unwise.

Leah
> See also:
> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111600
> .html>
> 
> Kraaijenbrink's contribution is the last paragraph of D.5.
> 
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> Thomas Roessler			    <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
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