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

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 20-Mar-2000 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> 
>> On 19-Mar-2000 Dave Crocker wrote:
>> > At 02:39 PM 3/19/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>> >>Full and proper market competition would include competition at the
>> >>registry
>> >>level also, would it not?
>> > 
>> > Please specify exactly what you mean by "competition at the registry
>> > level" 
>> > and how pursuit of it does not run afoul of technical constraints, such as
>> > those described by the Internet Architecture Board.
>> > 
>> 
>> Dave,
>> 
>> We have over 240 registries today.   Can you explain how this works in light
>> of
>> any "technical constraints?"
> 
> Do you believe that ".fr" is competing with ".ar"? If so, could you explain
> in what way?

What does theory behind competition have to do with "technical constraints?"

Technical constraints do not extend to economics, and the IAB is emminently
unqualified to make statements based on economic theories of competition. 

Dave said there were technical constraints illustrated by this IAB document.  
I'm tring to understand why there would be any, and where these technical
constraints are documented.  They don't seem to be in the document quoted.

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