Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

> > Re-bidding only limits the time that this arms race can take place,
> > probably making it even more frenzied.
> 
> Dynamics of the situation don't need to work that way -- mostly, you 
> expect that the incumbent registry operator would try to do a good 
> job, because it hopes to win the new bid.  I should point out, BTW, 
> that the rebid is not required to only consider cost.  Other 
> factors, such as current experience, the unavoidable costs of changing, 
> and the risks of instability, are certain to be considered, as well.  
> In other words, the bids will be evaluated on a number of criteria, 
> and simple low-ball bids will be rejected.  

Says who? You keep heaping these conditionals on as if they
were fact. They are not.

Until you rigidly define what "bidding" is, you're spitting in the
wind, and your rhetoric is tiresome.

> This is just as true for CORE as it is for IODesign or Iperdome --
> there is absolutely no question that any TLD TM claims of CORE must
> be relinquished to ICANN before any such encumbered CORE TLD goes in
> the root..  Furthermore, the TLD names must go up for open bid --
> modulo objective criteria, IODesign should be just as likely to win a
> bid for ".shop" as CORE is.

In your ideological world. Thankfully, the real world is a bit more
rational. Again, you spew this rhetoric as fact - it is not only far
from fact, it's far from possible.

> > Mandating non-profit just means that the monopoly shunts the
> > money into the salaries of its employees.
> 
> 1) It doesn't necessarily mean that at all --there have been some
> well-publicized cases in the US of poorly run charities, but on the
> whole, non-profits do what they claim.  Furthermore, we do have
> concrete examples to the contrary -- namely Nominet.  2) Most of the
> work, indeed almost all of the work, would be done by the bidding
> contractor, which could be for-profit, in any case. 
> 
> (BTW, Note that the phrase usually includes "cost-recovery".)

And how much does Michael Roberts cost? Is that cost being
recovered well? ICANN and it's huge debt and budget puts the 
lie to your theory.

Arguing with you has lost its necessity.

*plonk*

Christopher