Re: Thread 1: Sharing

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

>> If it is not ready, then allow the new registrars to operate
>> exclusively, as NSI is doing, until the system is ready and
>> tested.
>
>As I have noted, this is an argument fundamentally grounded in an odd
>notion -- that because someone is performing an activity based on a
>long standing contract, that others must the right to perform the same
>activity even though it is desired that no one at all have the right
>to perform this activity.

As I've said, allow all to operate in the manner of NSI until NSI is
in a position to share, be it voluntary or compelled. How this works,
and what timetable would be followed is still open, it would seem.

>> Anything else is restraintive trade practices, and cannot be
>> tolerated.
>
>Restraint of trade is a very specific legal notion.  Are you certain
>you wish to assert it?

I am not asserting it other than to point out that that particular
course of action would be so. What happens as a result is something
I would prefer not to dwell upon.

>> From our standpoint, we have been working for well over a year now on
>> seeing this process through, and patience is now at an end.
>
>It was understood that there was substantial community concern over
>the length of the process, and that is one of the reasons that the
>IAHC set a very ambitious timeline for the completion of its
>work. Thus far, it has met its self imposed deadlines (although it has
>adjusted one or two by a week here and there). There appears to be
>some new urgency to the tone of your remarks, however. Are you unhappy
>with the way in which the IAHC has been meeting its deadlines, or with
>the schedule?

Neither. I am unhappy with the apparent lack of concern that the IAHC
took in the creation of the 19Dec draft, and the apparent lack of
concern the IAHC is showing in comments upon that draft. I am unhappy
in that I am losing hope of a satisfactory resolution, and I am
personally disappointed in the direction this is going to take. Call
it a personality flaw, but I detest the inability to come to mutually
acceptable solutions.

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Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.