Re: The user viewpoint

[johnl@iecc.com (John R Levine)]

> Multiple registry control of one branch at ANY level introduces
> ambiguities which affect business accountability.

People seem to be able to live with the way that 800/888 numbers are
allocated, with a small neutral database manager holding the shared
data submitted by all of the IXCs who actually provide the service.

That's the model I believe that most of us fans of shared iTLDs are
advocating.  It is if anything less risky than the unshared model
since it lessens the possibility that a registry will unilaterally
change the rules, as Carl Oppedahl reminds us the Internic does.