RE: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Agreed, non-profit only, is not safer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Ambler
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 10:41 AM
> To: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] Unofficial report on L.A. meeting
> 
> 
> >Kent also suggested that while many of us support a mix of 
> non-profit and
> >for-profit gTLDs (indeed, looking at the four most "popular" position
> >papers, some form of mixed system gets support from most of 
> the signers of
> >position paper A, plus the signers of B, C, and D), he 
> thought we could
> >reach rough consensus that it would be safer to *start* with 
> non-profit
> >registries.  (Please stop me if I'm remembering this, or any other
> >statement, incorrectly.)
> 
> Not by a longshot. If we do, indeed, start with 6-10 as 
> consensus seems to
> indicate, we should not elevate any business model above any other.
> That is tantamount to claiming that one model is "better" than another
> and therefore more deserving of going first. All models are deserving
> of participating in any "testbed" phase.
> 
> Christopher
> 
>