Re: Shared domains

[John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>]

> > else some of the new iTLDs will become popular, in which case the policies
> > and procedures of their monopoly registries will come under scrutiny and
> > we'll be right back where we are now.  Only shared registries offer a way
> > out of this cycle. 
> 
> Another way out of the cycle, and one which I prefer, is for the IAHC to
> say that it is not for them or IANA to determine how things *MUST* be run
> in the DNS and to allocate new TLD's in such a way that all significant
> types of proposal can be tried. This would mean that they would issue
> a certain number of monopoly commercial iTLD's, a certain number of shared
> commercial iTLD's, a certain number of non-commercial iTLD's and a certain
> number of experimental iTLDs (.MARCA and other database ideas).
> 
> Then let the people decide which is best.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the people will after all the smoke has
settled decide that they still all want to be in .COM for utterly
non-technical reasons, and they still have big problems with the monopoly
registry for .COM. Then what? 

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Trumansburg NY
Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies"
and Information Superhighwayman wanna-be