Re: monoplistic practises

[Dave Morton <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>]

>At 9:13 AM -0800 11/17/96, Tristan Palmer wrote:
>>contributing to this debate from a UK perspective. Secondly I would like to
>>discuss the problems raised by monopoly of the name spaces, and to see if my
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>Tristan,
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>	Thanks for raising this topic.  The current charter for the IAHC
>does not include "national" TLDs, since we believe the immediate crisis
>pertains to the "international" ones.

Well to some extent anything the IAHC proposes will have some (perhaps
indirect) affect on the current financing and operation of national TLDs
as well. So these you might also want to take into consideration.

>	However the concern over having a single registry in charge of an
>important, interesting, or otherwise high-leverage TLD is definitely a
>significant topic for immediate consideration.  It has received much debate
>over the last two years and, I believe, is a topic that the IAHC is likely
>to attend to.

Yes - please do so.
Dave

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