Re: The view from my window

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 6:20 PM -0800 12/22/96, Aveek Datta wrote:
>I also think the lottery is a bad idea, almost as bad as the FCFS which
>all these experimental registries advocate. The best is to draft some
>sort of ranking system (0-100 Point System?) for registries and then
>accept the highest ranking registry. On ties within a certain fuzzy

	Either the ranking system is highly -- i.e., completely --
objective and therefore won't receive much criticism, or the scheme will be
viewed as highly subjective.  My own guess is that highly objective
criteria will be too few to adequately partition applications.  I think we
have no chance of using strictly objective criteria.  Those believing
otherwise are invited to devise and submit a scheme and have it discussed
on this list.

	Given this, an additional mechanism is required.  The only way to
choose from among an equally qualfied set (according to objective criteria)
is a random process.

d/


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