Re: understanding consensus

[thomst@netcom.com (Thom Stark)]

Jeff:

>   Which is your possition.  For or against the $20k and 60 day
> wait time, or what?  From your posting below it is dificult to tell!

In general, I think the 60-day wait is useless.  A 60-day publication
period makes sense, assuming that:

  1. The publication is continuous and in a variety of forms (Web,
     ftp, newsgroup and paper)
  2. The archive of published names is also easily available in an
     easily (online) searchable form

However, I don't see that a 60-day publication period does anything for
the INTERNET..just for the individual domain registrants.

I think the $20K figure is exactly what Perry Metzger characterized it
as being:  a back-of-the-napkin guesstimate of the cost of processing
an application.  Since the figure is based on highly imprecise data,
it's hard to make a case for that specific number.

Do I think the applicants should bear the cost of processing their
own applications?  Yes.

Do I think the applicants should bear the cost of setting up the
mechanism to process applications?  No.  That clearly should be borne
by ISOC/IAHC from the $7M collected by NSI from registration fees.

My post referred to the constant "Is so!"  "Is NOT!"  "Is SO!!"
character of *way* too many of the posts we see here.  200 messages a
day is a tedious enough task.  Endless restatement of the same 
positions on the same subjects BY THE SAME PEOPLE makes it positively 
Sissyphean.

Regards,

Thom Stark

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