Re: Specific Questions

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Dave Crocker wrote:

> >4. Lottery or Objective Criteria?
> 
> 	How shall sufficient granularity be ensured, given the limited
> number of slots available?

No objective criteria are required. Let the pool of applicants choose the
successful participants among themselves. An applicant should be able to
withdraw at any time forfeiting only the ability to re-enter the pool of
first-time applicants. Then a company that wants to be 100% guaranteed of 
a position in the first-time pool can threaten or bribe other applicants
to get them to withdraw. (or something like that :-)

> >6. Shared only, exclusive only, shared on choice of registry, or
> >  shared when feasable, exclusive until then?
> 
> 	If not shared, how shall stability for the end-users be assured in
> the face of problems with the registrar (misbehavior or going out of
> business)?

If the initial registry system is geared up from day one to handle
3LD's such as the .ALT gTLD that I have discussed several times here, then
we should be able to grant registries the exclusive use of an SLD in
one of the gTLD's because we know that we can, on a moments notice, place
that SLD in the same shared system that is operational. Since the
database used by a registry is public (the domain name owners are
publishing this information after all), and since the daily gazette
is, in effect, a transaction stream, we should be able to maintain
an emergency backup of the databases for all registries, shared or
otherwise.

Perhaps the gTLD to house these exclusive registries should be .SITE.

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