Re: [wg-c] Exclusions

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> I think that it's only fair that any company/entity that is a registrar
> should not be eligible for inclusion in the testbed phase for new
> registries. After the testbed, they should be allowed to apply, but
> to give a company testbed status in BOTH the registrar and
> registry phases is unfair to other companies.

Makes sense to me - Indeed I would go further and suggest that any person
or company that has a significant interest in an already existing TLD (to
my mind, *any* TLD, whether gTLD, ccTLD, or otherwise) ought to be
encouraged to fully focus on developing the asset it already has and not
be permitted to obtain a second bite from the TLD apple.

By "significant" interest, I would mean anyone/company that is a registry
or registrar for a TLD or any person who has a meaningful control power
over such a registry or registrar.

Thus, for example, I would not want NSI or any of the current registries
to have a bid for new TLDs.  Nor would, for instance, Verisign or SAIC,
given their interest in NSI.

		--karl--