Re: Thread 1: Sharing

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

Chris,

  Please read below your comments.

Christopher Ambler wrote:
> 
> This seems to be the big one, although I see a rough consensus towards
> sharing. Perhaps I don't see it that clearly.

  I have not seen this consensus.
> 
> My take on it is that sharing is fine, as long as the two major barriers
> are taken down.
> 
> First, a technical solution. There are many on this list who claim that
> a technical solution is already at hand. If this is so, then there's
> no barrier. Shouldn't CORE make this decision at the very first meeting,
> then?

  Yes there is a technical solution.  But not a very good one.  Yes,
CORE and the registrars should take up this problem.  
> 
> Second, the status of NSI. Is it not fair to decide that everyone shares
> as soon as everyone agrees to share? An agreement between the new
> registrars is simple to execute. Then, as soon as NSI joins in, we all
> share. This, too, may be immediate - or it may be when the NSF agreement
> runs out. It's out of our hands. To expect the new registrars to share
> the new gTLDs, while allowing NSI to continue to have exclusive use
> of the 3 existing gTLDs is grossly unfair.

  Well Chris, there is a third.

Third, whom is to determine weather and in what manner are gTLDs to
be shared.  Is this to be determined by IACH, CORE, or the registrars?
This I think should be determined at the first CORE meeting.
> 
> The draft resolution, then, could be that everyone agrees to share as
> soon as a technical solution is found and NSI agrees to share as well.
> Until that time, registrars have exclusive use of selected gTLDs, while
> NSI continues as they have been. CORE will define/choose and implement
> a sharing procedure immediately, and implement it as soon as sharing
> is an option.

  I think that the Registrars should have a part in that dicision.
> 
> I see this as a compromise that all sides can feel comfortable with.

  Well, I don't entirely.

Regards,

> 
> --
> Christopher Ambler
> President, Image Online Design, Inc.

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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