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Re: TLD assignment permanence

At 09:04 AM 11/24/96 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:

>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.

For example, .COM was handled by SRI prior to 1993, and then was handled by
NSI.  I assume one of the agenda items for IAHC is to recommend what should
happen to .COM when NSI's five-year contract runs out in 1998.  NSI has said
it assumes that when the contract expires, it will simply continue to
administer .COM (and collect the various fees from the domain name owners)
and will answer to no one.