Re: [wg-c] A counterproposal

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

On 16 July 1999, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:


>On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 01:06:32AM -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
>
>>* it should treat all registries that have registered names in "unrecognized"
>>gTLDs (i.e., those outside the NTIA/ICANN root) equally. IOD, Name.space,
>>AlterNIC, CORE--all are in the same boat and should be treated exactly the
>>same.
>
>Indeed, I agree totally.  Any new gTLD should, in my opinion, start
>completely fresh.  No SLDs should be grandfathered in the registry. 
>No TLD zone should enter the root pre-populated with registrations.  
>That should be a basic condition.


...and, since ICANN has no authority whatsoever to make the CORE
registrars wipe the slate clean for those gTLDs they've already sold, the
only thing to do at this point is to give up on trying to ramrod them
through this process.