Re: [wg-c] more on non-shaired gTLDs

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 04:59 PM 3/19/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>On 20-Mar-2000 Dave Crocker wrote:
> > William, you used a term and I asked you to explain it.  Instead you cam
> > back with a question, but no explanation.  So I rpeat my 
> question:  what do
> > you mean "competition at the registry level"?
>
>You know perfectly well what I mean, Dave.  I'm not getting caught up in your
>word games.

Glad you are so sure about what I know, when I'm not.  The language you 
used has been used in very different ways by different people.

Amazing how difficult it is to get a simple question answered.


> > None of those 240 are "shared registries".  They are individual
> > regisitries, each under control of a single authority.  Some have multiple
> > registrars.  Is that what you meant?
>
>I think that was perfectly clear.  There is no need to mandate that all
>registries be "shared" and there are certainly no technical constraints that

If it had been so perfectly, the question would not have been asked.

As to mandating, you asked the original question in the context of 
competition.  One of the very strong impeti (impetuses?) for the efforts 
that led to creating ICANN was to introduce competition in DNS 
administration... where possible and appropriate.


>they must be this way.  BTW, can you please point the exact IAB technical
>constraints you mean?  They don't seem to exist.

<http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-unique-dns-root-00.txt>

Yes, Internet Drafts are difficult to find.  So few people know about them 
or use them and they aren't even mentioned on the IETF home page, except in 
the same size type as everything else there...

d/


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