Re: Specific Questions

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 5:57 PM -0500 12/25/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

I'm confused. You are saying QUOTE: "not all of the situation is within
the direct control of the IAHC", and yet you are exercising that
authority by the very tasks you are chartered to perform.

> The existing proposal is consistant. As has been repeatedly noted, not
> all of the situation is within the direct control of the IAHC. The
> mere fact that certain extant companies doing registration are not
> going to be sharing immediately does not mean that it is in the
> interests of the users of the DNS that the IAHC permit other
> non-shared registration mechanisms. If non-shared TLDs are bad, then
> the way to fix the situation is obviously not to create new ones, but
> to only create shared TLDs and to attempt to get the extant TLDs to
> eventually be shared as well.
>
> I understand that you do not feel this will allow new registrars to
> make as much money as existing companies in the registration business,
> but this cannot be our primary concern, which must remain focused on
> the general needs of the users of the DNS.
>
>
> Perry
> Speaking for myself, and not for the IAHC in an official capacity.


Regards,

Simon

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