Re: Thread 3: selection of registrars

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Christopher Ambler allegedly said:
> 
> >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.

Take a break Chris.  It obviously doesn't have to mean that at all. 
Dave Crocker has given what in my opinion is a completely adequate
explanation for the lottery -- it is in general unwise to commit to 
untested systems too quickly.  Take that as the guiding principal and
the answer to your questions is obvious.

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