Re: Thread 3: selection of registrars

[Danny Padwa <padw7068@sparky.cs.nyu.edu>]

> This seems to be a large point of contention. Some like the lottery,
> and some don't. The argument for a lottery is that we need to limit
> the initial participation.

	Not so much "limit" as "keep manageable".

	A lot of the technology that we are talking about here will
(inevitably) involve many missteps during the early stages.  No matter
how competent and dedicated the registrars are, coordinating several
hundred of them in one shot is going to be a complete nightmare.
Perhaps impossible.  Based upon the last week of iahc-discuss, imagine
how many lawsuits would be threatened over the domain-registrars
mailing list every time someone realized that a fundamental
engineering assumption needed to be changed :-(

	Far better to have the initial rollout be small, with a
pre-established timetable for widening the field.  The only argument
that I could see against this plan is that the initial pool will
obtain a completely insurmountable oligopoly during the initial
deployment.  If the time period is on the order of three months, I
don't see this risk here.

- Danny