[wg-c] The nature of a registry

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 03:37 PM 8/19/99 , Christopher Ambler wrote:
>Fine. Image Online Design will not be a registrar, but will, instead,
>run the .web registry. CORE may be the registrars, since they
>don't give a damn who runs the TLD.


This nicely highlights the incorrect attribution that has been made for the 
last couple of years.  CORE has been claimed to care about the registry 
issue and --- although it might be nice to ask them directly -- I suspect 
it doesn't.  As noted it is an association of registrars.

On the other hand, the association was set up to run a registry.  On the 
other hand, CORE and its registrars did not set itself up.

An independent body with members from a range of organizations and 
perspectives specified the registry issue.  Not CORE.

It has been convenient to attribute the choice to CORE, since its member 
are mostly crass seekers of profit.

However those who specified the arrangement had no direct financial stake 
in the outcome and were, instead, trying to juggle the combinations of 
consumer interest, trademark concerns, and operational challenges.

It is also worth noting that a significant number of other organizations 
formally chimed in with approval of the arrangement.

At the core (pun intended) of this arrangement was the view that registries 
should be run on a cost-recovery basis.

It is worth noting that this view received rough-consensus-level support 
among the public comments made curing the green/white paper process.

d/


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