An alternative to the "lottery"

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

It occured to me that there might be a way to handle the lottery 
issue.  The stated goal of the lottery is to maintain the stability, 
integrity, and reliability of net, a goal I don't think any reasonable
person could disagree with -- we all want stability, integrity, and 
reliability. 

So, just let things be driven by measures of stability, integrity, and
reliability.  In other words, reword the draft to emphasize that *all*
qualified applicants will be accepted essentially immediately. 
However, they will brought online only at a rate that allows continued
stability, integrity, and reliability.  That is, if, by some objective
criteria the current set of registrars are not able to operate at an
appropriate level of service, no new registrars will be added until
the level of service rises to an acceptable level. 

In a little more detail, IAHC will accept applications on a monthly
basis.  The monthly batch of applications will be vetted for the
qualifications of the applicants, and the qualified ones will be 
queued in random order to go online.  Thus, the order of selection is 
FCFS, at a granularity of one month, with ties being broken by random 
procedures.  If the IAHC gets behind vetting applicants the order 
will be preserved.

The process will start with the selection of the first two registrars in 
the queue from the first months batch of applications.  As soon as 
they are on line successfully sharing registrations, the third one 
will be added, and so on.  Registrars further back in the queue will 
of course be monitoring the progress of the operating registrars, and 
will incorporate and test procedures that are developed so that they 
can come online quickly.

This scheme would place no limits on the rate of growth of the number
of registrars except the actual operational factors we are *all*
interested in. 

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov		the thief he kindly spoke...
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