Re: Conflict resolution?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:57 AM -0800 11/20/96, Kent Crispin wrote:

> > 1. NSI retains exclusive use of .COM, .NET and .ORG through 1998, and even
> >   after that point, has had an unfair trade advantage in having exclusive
> >   use of them to date. Perhaps, if this procedure had been put in place
> >   over a year ago, rather than letting the current IANA TLD applications
> >   sit, things would be different. Now, it's just too late. I'm sorry if
> >   this business aspect goes against the personal worldviews of some of
> >   the participants here, but the cold hard fact is that this is now a
> >   situation in which large amounts of money are in the balance.
>
> NSI's advantage could be nullified by making a rule that no single
> registry could serve more than 3 TLDs.  I don't like this rule,
> personally -- I just bring it up to point out that there are many
> possible solutions to that problem.
>

It breaks down when two or more registries merge. It will happen.


Simon

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