Re: Thread 3: selection of registrars

[chris@hal.iodesign.com (Christopher Ambler)]

>NSI's cooperative agreement expires in 1998.

NSI could, if they wanted to, share on 1 March 1997, making a lottery
unnecessary. Are you prepared for this possibility? If so, then you
must be prepared to implement without a lottery. If you are so
prepared, then commit to it now.

If you are not so prepared, then that must mean that you know that NSI
won't share until, at a minimum, the agreement expires.

Furthermore, what if NSI refuses to share at all, at any time? What
recourse does the IAHC, CORE, IANA, ISOC, et. al. have? What happens
if the NSF just renews the contract as written? For that matter, what
if they dissolve it alltogether? What compels NSI to join CORE? Why
can't they keep going as they're going? They certainly don't need
the money from the NSF, and that 30% increase in revenue generated by
their halting of the "Internet Fund" contributions will cover the
loss of NSF funds nicely.

I cannot believe that the IAHC hasn't asked themselves these questions.
I cannot believe that the IAHC doesn't have some of these answers. Care
to share them with the rest of us?

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Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.