Re: Conflict resolution?

["David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>]

Dave,

>>_ALL_ top level domains _MUST_ be shared
>	what are the public/open, established, mature technical standards
>that are to be used to provide a basis for making such a requirement?

Argument (a).  If I might answer with a question:  how long would you
imagine it would take you personally to write a program that:

1) accepts an email message encrypted with a private key
2) decrypts that message with a locally registered public key
3) parses the formatted message to obtain specific information
4) take the specific information and 
	4a) if an entry corresponding to that information already 
	    exists in a local database, reply with an error
	4b) if an entry doesn't exist, create an entry
5) generate a new file based on information in the database
6) make the new file publicly available

in a manner that would make you confident enough to sign a contract to
provide this as a paid service?  A day?  A week?  A month?

What standards are necessary here?  Email standard?  SMTP.  Public key
encryption?  PGP would suffice, although I don't believe it is a
standard.  Message format?  I'd argue it would be an implementation
decision, although it might be nice to standardize on templates.
Database format?  Again, implementation decision, but this would
likely be better off left unspecified.  New file format?  Zone files
documented within the DNS.

If I might pose a couple more (rhetorical) questions: what are the
public/open, established, mature technical standards that are to be
used by the IAHC to establish "sufficient business viability" (section
6.3.3, draft-postel-iana-itld-admin-01.txt)?  Also, what are the
public/open, established, mature technical standards used in defining
the IAHC itself?

Obviously, the program described above could be elaborated to the nth
degree or a completely separate protocol could be devised to do the
same thing (although I fail to see the advantage).  That isn't really
the point -- the point I'm trying to make is the definition of such
standards should they actually be necessary or procedures to perform
the same function are (in my mind) infinitely easier to deal with than
the socio/politico/economic (note: no technico- here) issues the IAHC
must contend with if they will be allocating exclusive TLDs.

Hey, just looking out for your all's best interests... :-)

Regards,
-drc