RE: [wg-c] Exclusions

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

Hmmm...

Let's see, can we extrapolate on this?

No one who is developing commercial property in New York City should be
allowed to develop a commercial property in, say, Los Angeles - or anywhere
else in the world?

No one who operates a delivery service in Paris should be allowed to
operate a delivery service in Las Vegas?

No one who runs a manufacturing line for memory chips should be allowed to
operate a manufacturing line for CPUs?

No one with any kind of developed and effectively operating infrastructure
should be allowed to utilize economies of scale and promote efficiencies by
expanding their product lines?

Just wondering where this kind of reasoning inevitably leads <smile>...

I understand your intent (restraint of monopoly behavior). But there is a
significant body of law and economic theory which might be applied to this
concept which still allows for unconstrained business activity and
promotion of efficiencies, without any subjective "morally-based' restraint
of trade, so to speak.

Bill Semich
.NU Domain

At 06:25 AM 3/17/00 -0800, T Vienneau wrote:
>I Concur, this would help in encouraging alternative business models and
>should help to level the playing field.
>
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl@CaveBear.com]
>Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:55 PM
>To: wg-c@dnso.org
>Subject: Re: [wg-c] Exclusions
>
>
>
>> 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--
>
>
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