Re: Shared data base access by registries

["Thomas M. McGhan" <gill-simpson.com@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>]

> From:          Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>
> In response to <davidc@apnic.net>
Dave said: 
>  David, Your question is both reasonable and frustrating.
> Reasonable because, well, you're right.  Such things DO look
> trivial. Frustrating because gosh darn it they never seem to turn
> out that way.
{snip}
> >>That question is:  can we encourage COOPERATIVE sharing?
{snip}
>  Well, here's the hoped for dynamic:  give preference to voluntary
> sharing cooperatives.  With luck, this will mean that exclusive
> applicants will stand a serious chance of losing out entirely to
> cooperative ones. This creates a choice of maybe getting 100% of an
> interesting pie, versus nothing of it, or getting a smaller
> percentage, but with less risk.

dining philosphers?

tmcghan@gill-simpson.com