RE: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

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

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On 22-Mar-2000 Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:
> 
>> This whole thing is based on the supposition that the top level domains
>> should
>> be selected independent of the registry applications.  I think that an
>> application process should be created, the applications include the TLD
>> proposal, and each application is considered on its merits. This is really
>> the
>> only fair way of doing it.
> 
> The only "fair way" to do it is to ask the Internet community what TLDs
> they want, and act accordingly. Anything else subjects everyone to another
> arbitrary and capricious set of decisions made by the ICANN board. 
> 

Never work.  How do you ask the Internet Community, Patrick?  How do you define
the Internet Community?  And besides, picking the strings independent of a real
proposal for how it will be run is mostly useless.  A .per TLD is meaningless
without the proposal that says who and how it is to be run.

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