Re: Conflict resolution?

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Nov 19, 12:53pm, David R. Conrad wrote:
> Subject: Re: Conflict resolution?
> >The important idea is that *all* iTLD delegations from the IANA (or
> >whoever) are non-exclusive.  This would get us away from the corrosive
> >idea that iTLDs are "hot properties".
>
> I'd just like to strongly support what Kent has said here -- it would
> seem to me that a large majority of the "discussions" over the
> creation of new domains could be resolved by simply making the
> following statement:
>
> _ALL_ top level domains _MUST_ be shared
>
> This would:
>
> - remove of the current .COM/.NET/.ORG monopoly, thereby alleviating
>   what I see as _the_ major area of contention
> - handle the issue of "squatter's rights" and whether or not the
>   IANA accepted applications
> - allow for the creation of new TLDs to relieve the pressure on
>   .COM, but doing so in a much less "charged" environment
>
> The IAHC's role would then devolve into simply approving new TLDs
> based on perceived "usefulness to the Internet at large" as opposed to
> trying to establish viability of business plans (heh, good luck.  Hope
> your all's liability insurance premiums are paid up).

I love this idea.

> The arguments against the shared-tld proposals seem to fall into 2
> categories:
>
> a) they don't know how it can be done

It can be done just no one wants to put forth the efforts to build the project
and if onw was built it would have to be funded some how.

> b) they wouldn't be able to make money

A shared regestry would be vastly more complex than a regular domain
allocator. The shared regestry would have all the applications funneled
into it. It would have to be staffed 24x7 and have a sizeable amount
of network resources (storage, cpu, badwith)

> Argument a) can be answered by simply pointing at the way the 800
> numbers are handled in the US, that is, a neutral third party operates
> a "mutual exclusion service" handling requests FCFS via some
> (presumably) highly automated procedure.

So would it still cost the end user to obtain a nmae?

-rick

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Rick H. Wesson