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

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

> So, get rid of the coop agreement, have NSI say "piss off, '.com' is
mine",
> and you'll find ICANN telling the root-operators to point elsewhere for
> authoritative data on '.com'.

Not the situation you probably think it would be.

> Sure, NSI can continue to register '.com' names, but its about as useful
as
> IOD registering '.web' domains. This also proves that nobody can stop
anyone
> from registering .ANYTHING, but that getting that database to be
meaningful
> is a whole new game.

This is probably the most profound thing you've said today.

> As always, I think we're all arm-flapping and until the NSI position is
> clarified, we're wasting our time.

And annoying the pig :-)

Christopher