RE: [wg-c] Re: your mail

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

>What you are proposing is still that the TLDs come from the registries. A
>true middle ground (which I'm not happy with either) would be on the one
>hand create/validate a list of registries, on the other hand create a list
>of TLDs and then just share out randomly the TLDs amongst the registries.
>A sort of blind allocation. Just for the record, is the position "IOD must
>run '.web' if this gTLD exists" at all negotiable?

No, I can't imagine how it could be, considering our current customer
base (registrations from over 74 countries and rising every day), and
the investment in both time and money we've put into it. 

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Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web