TLD assignment permanence

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

Kent,

At 12:33 AM -0800 11/24/96, Kent Crispin wrote:
>The entire model would be changed from the notion that a registry
>*sells* a domain to the notion that a registry *licenses* a domain.  So

	that's already the model, although the IANA does not currently
license for a fee.  however, assignments have never been permanent and
there HAVE been changes in assignment, from one organization to another,
for various TLDs.

d/

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