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.
>

http://www.higgs.net/simon/net/draft-higgs-tld-cat-recent.txt

   3.2.3. The designated trustees must be equitable to all groups that
          request domain names.

          This means that the same rules are applied to all requests,
          all requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory
          fashion, and academic and commercial (and other) users are
          treated on an equal basis. No bias shall be shown regarding
          requests that may come from customers of some other business
          related to the manager -- e.g., no preferential service for
          customers of a particular data network provider. Trustees may
          not be involved with non-IANA appointed business ventures
          involving domain name speculation activities such as
          hoarding, or the reselling of "popular" domain names. There
          can be no requirement that a particular mail system (or other
          application), protocol, product, or service be used in order
          to obtain a domain name.

          There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains
          beyond the requirements on higher-level domains themselves.
          That is, the requirements in this document are applied
          recursively. In particular, all subdomains shall be allowed
          to operate their own domain name servers, providing in them
          whatever information the subdomain manager sees fit (as long
          as it is true and correct).


Simon

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