Re: don heath's comments

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 8:35 AM +0200 11/24/96, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> >With a few modifications, this will spell out the solution. Business
> >partners of the designated manager don't get to hoard names.
>
> I'm interested in seeing a revised text.
>

It's not quite finished but look at section 3 in
<http://www.higgs.net/simon/net/draft-higgs-tld-cat-recent.txt>

[This will become either draft-higgs-tld-cat-03.txt (or
draft-iahc-higgs-tld-cat-03.txt) with a few more hours work. The
current version is at
<http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-higgs-tld-cat-02.txt>]

> My idea - don't allow trading.  If one can't transfer ownership, then
> the value of a certain DN is much less and the "brokers" would go out
> of business and the "hoarders" would have nothing to do.  I know it
> is not a perfect solution - there are valid cases where people want
> to transfer ownership.  I would like to hear opinions for or against
> this idea.
>

Transfering and buying & selling are not quite the same. Reselling is
an issue which will have to be discussed with regard to the shared-tld
situation. It would be very easy to enter a multilevel marketing
nightmare, and then you would not be able to control hoarding unless
you restricted supply in some way.

On the other extreme, not transfering means permanently assigning
domains to an entity. You won't be able to collect annual fees then
because a domain will become like a SSN, or it'd become taxed (like
your SSN) via your bandwidth use through the ISPs (c/o .GOV
intervention).

In reality? The trademark owner stomps into court and gets custody.
Transfers happen. Same thing when a registry goes out of business. The
TLD delegation HAS to go somewhere or it dies.

We're also assuming the registry business is totally commercially run.
At some point (root no less), the business is entirely non-profit
(unless IANA is now for-profit). As you delegate from the root down,
the principles applied from root to TLD must be duplicated by the
registries delegating from TLD to 2LD. This is, I believe, the spirit
of RFC1591 and is, I think, the key to solving many of these issues.


Simon

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