Re: The view from my window

[Paul Ezra Kautz <pek@iu.big-island.va.us>]

Jeff Williams wrote:
>Kent Crispin wrote:
>> Simon Higgs allegedly said:
>> > At 12:33 PM -0500 12/26/96, Paul Ezra Kautz wrote:
>> > > There is a place for exclusive registration - the second level.
>> >
>> > Ah... but the namespace is recursive.
>> >
>> > "There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains beyond
>> > the requirements on higher-level domains themselves.  That is, the
>> > requirements in this memo are applied recursively." - RFC1591

That stopped being true a long time ago - YOU try and impose policy
on apple.com or whatever. Parts of the namespace - probably most
of it - are no longer a public resource.

>> However, shared tlds break that model immediately.  So I would rely
>> on it too much.
>
>  Good point here.  I think this may be at the crux of problem for
>several on this list, myself being one.  So breaking new technical
>ground with shared TLDs is virgine territory.  The problem I have
>is that there is not even a working test system.  That is why I 
>have recomended exclusive TLD's at first and than allow CORE or
>IAHC and the registrars to decide jointly weather to go to Shared
>TLDs, instead of mandating that up front.  Makes some of the
>implimentation
>concerns YOU have Kent, dimminished.

I don't think the question of shared or exclusive is a design detail
to be decided later.

How about this: a bunch of registrars volunteer to get the framework
up. This shouldn't take too long for motivated people - I don't think
anyone has claimed that sharing is a technical impossibility.
When it works, THEN everyone is let in, and the system is deployed - 
with or without NSI.

Paul Kautz