Re: A few comments

[Gilles LERAT <glerat@worldnet.net>]

At 11:36 21/12/96 PST, you wrote:
>>And as soon as com/net/org are shared all limitations are removed as to
>>number of registries.  Think about it. 
>
>Now this makes NO SENSE! The argument for a lottery that I'm hearing is
>that too many approved registries would create a difficult situation in
>management. But if com/net/org are shared, and everyone is allowed to
>participate if they meet the criteria, then where's the problem?! If
>com/net/org are shared off the mark, you're going to remove the lottery
>alltogether - so why not JUST DO IT NOW?

Why not ? 
Because (IMHO) the issues of creating new gTLDs cannot be wholly envisioned. 
It is merely an experiment, so nobody can say for sure what exactly will
happen when new gTLDs are created. 
Maybe there will be a rush from (other) speculative companies to register
popular names.

It is certainly not wise to allow everybody (who meet the criteria) to run a
registry.
What if one thousand registrars are approved, and it turns out that it's not
a viable business anymore ?
Obviously, changing a ressource as critical to the Internet as DNS should be
done 
extremly carefully. 
Once operations go smoothly, the range of participants can be extended. This
is just a matter of time, in fact.

Gilles Lerat,





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