Re: [ga] Re: .info LR2 process and failure of ICANN to heed warnings

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 11:58:28 PM, Soobok Lee wrote:


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William X Walsh" <william@wxsoft.info>
>  > What I Think the problem is...is that once again, people thought they
>> could come up with a system that is more fair than the most simple
>> first come first served.  They failed, miserably, in every single one
>> of these cases to do that.

> Not all round-robin lottery sucks. Very short queues could have been padded
> with null entries ("just pass") so that every queue length reach  a certain threshold 
> determined by the registry for fair name distribution.

> FCFS-style realtime landrush , without any round-robin connection throttling,
> was proved to be  poor at fair distributions. We learned that in last October's .info
> realtime landrush.

That depends on what you mean by fair distributions.  FCFS is
certainly more fair than the shenanigans that have been evident in
every other method these registries have played around with, that have
been nothing but headaches, and a major source of confusion to
consumers.

The landrush you referred to was not a real RCFS.  What you do is you
make it a violation of the registrars' contracts to accept
preregistration, and then you just open the registry to real time FCFS
registrations, NO queues, no lotteries, nothing but real time FCFS as
the consumer registrations come in.

None of the proposals I have seen attempted or discussed are any more
fair than that would be, and have only led to more problems than the
ones they claimed they were trying to solve.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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