Re: [wg-c] compromise proposal

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 05:33:30PM -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
[...]
> Now, since no one has made any public commentary on my last proposal, here
> it is again....
> 
> "1.Should there be new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)? If yes: How many?
> Which? At which speed should they be deployed and in which order? What
> should be the mechanism for developing new gTLDs after all these are
> deployed. Should each new gTLD have a specific charter? "
> 
> Yes, new gTLDs should be created. They should be deployed in such a fashion
> that they become virtually unlimited in number. Initially, ten new gTLDs
> should be deployed through a process similar to the ICANN/NSI/DOC
> test-bed. The specific TLDs deployed during this test-bed should be
> determined by the registries selected to participate.

This simply won't work, in my opinion.  It would mean that a method 
for resolving conflicts between registries would have to be already 
in place -- we couldn't wait for a lawsuit between CORE and 
IODesign to complete, for example.  

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain