[wg-c] reposted for Bret Fausett

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

>Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:22:27 -0800
>Subject: Re: Monopoly / Restrictive Charter Issues
>From: "Bret A. Fausett" <baf@fausett.com>
>To: <wg-c@dnso.org>
>T Vienneau wrote:
>> That said, I believe a monopoly or oligopoly have a more realistic chance
>> of providing meaningful enforcement of a restrictive charter, for example
>> ..mil
>
>A proposal for a chartered TLD may well impose some additional level of
>effort (and perhaps legal liability) on participating registrars. As a
>practical matter, registrars may decide that they would rather not assume
>those burdens and choose, instead, to opt out.
>
>But shouldn't they have the opportunity to make that decision, rather than
>creating a single point of registration as the default?
>
>       -- Bret
>