Re: The view from my window

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Dave,

  I must agree with Dave on this point.  Without some per-defined
criteria, the
"Lottery method"  is unexceptable.  Any "point rating system would only
be
subjective and there for restrictive to the point of descriminatory. 
This
is unacceptble.  If however a set group of rules governing the "Lottery
Method"
were to be done in a thoughtful manner, their is some merit for it's
consideration.  However those "Rules"  should be determined and agreed
upon
by those on this list.  This could be accomplished.  But I think it
would
be problematic to determine a "Fair" point system.  The issue of "Ties"
being determined on some sort of Fuzzy, is in and of itself Fuzzy! That
is in my opinion the flaw in the perposed method.

Regards,


Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> 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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