Re: Thread 3: selection of registrars

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

Chris,

  Please read below your comments.

Christopher Ambler wrote:
> 
> >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.

  This is a good idea.  But I doubt that it will turn out that way.
There has to be some sort of incentive in for NSI, and I don't see
one in my mind, right 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.

  Yep!  And maybe not after that either.  
> 
> 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.

  If NSI refuses to share at any time, there is a rather large and
possibly uncermountable problem in the short term.  This would be bad
if you support sharing, which I do not.  If they renew, than you know
that sharing is just alot of hot air, in reality.  If desolved, I am not
even sure what could happen in that case.  Nothing compels NSI to join
CORE, unless it gets some provisios and majority membership(Control).
> 
> 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?

  Good question's here?  I must believe that IAHC has looked into it
to some degree at least.

Regards,


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