[wg-c] The Issues At Hand

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

I see, thank you.

In that case, we also believe that companies such as IOD
and CORE, who set up infrastructure under the then-current
policies and procedures are, if nothing else, victims of
history, and they (nor their customers) should not be
penalized as a result.

While William's point may be valid, the compromise would be
to freeze new registrations in these zones pending addition
to the root. Furthermore, with identification of the issue,
it should be noted that no new companies which are creating
infrastructure in anticipation of ICANN opening up competition
should be taking registrations in their zones at this time.

The issue of specialized zones that come pre-populated, and
the possibility of private zones that are currently populated
(for example, .ATT or .MCI or .IBM) should be considered as
well.

Additionally, in the interest of fairness (which this
proposal seems to take as its reason), I must reiterate
my earlier proposal that any company which participated
in the testbed for registrars should not participate in
the testbed for registries, unless there are not enough
applicants to fill the registry testbed. To exclude
companies that have had no participation in favour of
companies that were given initial registrar testbed
status would be unfair, at best.

Unless, of course, these issues are outside the scope of this
working group, in which case the issue should be dropped.

--
Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web


-----Original Message-----
From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:42 PM
To: Christopher Ambler
Cc: wg-c@dnso.org; James Love
Subject: RE: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs


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On 11-Apr-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
> William, you say "we." Who is "we?"

The people who are saying that IOD/CORE and their preregistrations should
not
have any standing.

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