Re: Lottery

[Gilles LERAT <glerat@worldnet.net>]

>> > 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.
>

I have a proposal for one criteria, that may not be fair, but at least is
objective.

The criteria is that registrars should stop acting as traditional ISPs
themselves.
By this, I mean that their main activity should not be to register domain
names for other companies.

Let's look at it this way: if only 20-30 registrars are being created the
first year, 
distributed geographically on the six ITU Zones, it makes about 4 registrars
per zone.

It is likely that, except for United States, there will only be one
registrar per country. 
What if newly acquainted registrars start registring customers under the gTLDs
they also manage ?
Let's say I run company A in Japan providing Internet access and doing
domain names registration on behalf of my customers, and a company B gets to
be a registrar in Japan. 
This company B was an ISP, and still continue to operate as an ISP.
Would I feel OK to give my money out to my competitor ?
Certainly not !!! I would continue to go to NSI, because I know NSI does not
compete 
with me at all.
 
I propose this criteria be valid at long as the attribution of new gTLDs is
restricted (
by way of lottery, or any processes), i.e. until com/net/org are shared.
 
In short, the IAHC should give some thoughts as to whether registrars should
be expected
to continue their traditional activity, or completely turn to registration
activity.
NSI was not an ISP, when it applied for managing registrations. Nor should
be newly acquainted registrars. 


Best regards,
(no flame, please)

Gilles Lerat


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