Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:48 PM -0500 12/27/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Carl Oppedahl writes:
> > >*Might* help them later.  And it isn't clear that a waiting period
> > >would help any more than a pure publication period.
> >
> > We have a publication period now, right?  Anybody who wants to can check
> > Whois to see that a domain name has been added, right?
>
> Yup. I keep asking the question how a publication period is in any way
> significant. I mean, what is a '60 day publication period' given that
> the information remains fully available after 60 days, and why is it
> different from the extant system? I haven't gotten an answer I find
> satisfying yet.
>

Then scrap the 60 day wait altogether.

Regards,

Simon

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