Re: Lottery

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 davidk@ISI.EDU wrote:

> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> > Marc Hurst writes :
> > 
> > On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Rick H. Wesson wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Using a lottery to decide who becomes a regestry is IMHO a bad idea.
> > > I believe that regestries should be selected on the merrits of the
> > > organization. If a lottery process is used any Joe with 20K could
> > > become the next regestry. Is this wize? I think the IAHC is chicken
> > > and worried about CYA more than looking at who the next trustees
> > > of the name space are going to be.
> > > 
> > > -Rick
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Rick H. Wesson
> > > 
> > 
> > I definitely have to agree.
> > The applicants for this process should be rated on several seperate fields.
> > 
> > You may consider financial stability, technical ability, connectivity, 
> > industry support (are you allied with a backbone perhaps?) and outright 
> > knowledge of the RFC process and be concerned (or have proven in the 
> > past) or involved with the dialogue that will be the impetus 
> > for evolving these new segments of internet servicee.
> 
> Technical ability, connectivity and financial health can change rather
> quickly.
> 
> Subjective criteria are expensive because they need 'evaluation'.
> 
> Subjective criteria can become even more expensive if people don't agree
> (which is very likely because the criteria are subjective).
> 
> A 20K criterium is simple and can be easily verified.
> 
> The IAHC proposal is written (or can be read in such a way) that
> incompetence will not hurt too much (see my question for clarification in
> another mail: it depends on who actually operates the DNS, not registers
> the data, which is not covered in the proposal).

$20K is not the ONLY criteria for being in the lottery.  It would appear
everyone has missed this section:

The selection of registries in a region will be by lottery among qualified
applicants. Registrar rights are non-transferable
to other entities. 

IAHC will establish the qualifications required of each applicant to
become a registrar. These qualifications will be
objective and will be subject to independent confirmation. The application
forms for Registrars will be prepared by IAHC,
and will include the following provisions: 
--------

Plz help us to form objective criteria.


> 
> David K.
> ---
> 

Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]