Re: Jim Welch paper

["Leo Smith" <barter@ntplx.net>]

I read your position paper and need clarification. In your paper you write:

	"The corporation effectively owns all internal nodes. The only
	names that any individual or organization may acquire are the names of
	leaf nodes. A name is created when someone proposes it. A proposed
	name is acquired by the highest bidder in an Internet-based auction
	process subject to some minimum bid, say $25 US 1997-01-01."

The corporation referred to above  I take to mean your proposed new
Internet entity 
	"created (as a) single for-profit corporation... for the sole purpose
	of administering the domain name system"

When you refer to a name being created when someone proposes it, does that
refer to an end user proposing a particular SLD name for their use, or does
it refer to a registry proposing a gTLD name? 

While I don't see a benefit to putting SLD names out to auction, the
concept of having a bidding process under which qualified registries could
compete to acquire the exclusive licensing rights to a TLD has serious
merit, especially if, after acquiring the exclusive license, the gTLD
becomes "SHARED" with all other registries through sublicensing agreements.
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Jim Welch had written on 12/28:
: For a completely different solution to the various DNS problems being
: discussed here please see:	http://research.troy.ny.us/leafnodes.txt