Re: The user viewpoint

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

>> >And what is to kep the opperator of the shared regestry from doing the
>> >same. Wakeing up one day and changeing the rules, like $50 per allocation
>> >insted of $1?
>>
>> The database manager has contracts with, and is probably jointly owned by,
>> the registries it serves.
>
>Well, that would make it much eiser for the opperators to collude then.

I'd better polish up my description of this and send it in.  In short,
with a shared TLD, anyone who meets technical criteria can become a
registry and has the option of buying a share in the database manager.



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