Re: The user viewpoint

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 3:53 PM -0800 12/6/96, Rick H. Wesson wrote:

> On Dec 6,  3:33pm, Simon Higgs wrote:
> > At 11:45 AM -0800 12/6/96, Rick H. Wesson wrote:
> > > >From the code I've writen to date, it is very difficult to have
> > > TLDs shared amunst multipul shared-tld regestries. Any tld in a shared
> > > domain regestry are exclusive to that regestry although they are shared
> > > amunst the participitants of that domain regestry.
> >
> > That's easily solved within the charter of each TLD. It should specify
> > who can perform registration services for that TLD. That becomes the
> > basis for your overall registry model. That way any registry can be
> > delegated any individual TLD. Plus it's scalable, because it's a viable
> > way of creating more competition for the popular TLDs without
> > obligating the smaller, more focused registries to carry more TLDs than
> > they want to.
> >
>
> The origional charter of the TLD shouldn't specify that it be shared.
> In any event the entity that has been deligated authority over a
> iTLD might want to mkae it shared at a later date. The senerio that I

It has to. There are three types of TLD - shared, non-shared public,
non-shared private. If it's non-shared and it becomes shared, the
charter just changes to reflect that.

> envision is that shared-tld regestries charge for database updates, while
> the seller of the TLD is responsible for the billing policy of whatever
> domain allocation they make.
>
> <fiction>
>   sTLD-R = Shared TLD Regestry
>      (this is so I never have to spell Regestry again ;-)
>
>
> .COM is shared, NSI sells a SLD in .COM, NSI charges $50 per year
> for the life of the SLD. Every time that SLD is updated NSI pays
> the sTLD-R  $10 for the update. This would be true for
> any update. If this were true what is keeping the individual that
> is a contact for the SLD from coming directly to the sTLD-R, and
> updateing the contact record for a fee? It could get confuseing....
>
> </fiction>
>

If
   sTLD-R = Shared TLD Master Database

The SLD contact doesn't have access to the sTLD-R. Only delegated
representitives (trustees/registries) have access via their "IANA
license". The SLD contact has to go to one of the delegated
trustees/registries.


Simon

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