exclusivity of TLD's

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Kevin Brown wrote:

> Part of a single rooted tree has one policy ( Shared registry, open
> delegation ) and the other part of the tree has another ( Exclusive
> registry, no standards, closed final delegation). Funny, in nature, usually
> the branches are equally covered by leaves. No not the DNS tree, all the
> leaves want to grow in .com, no water gets to the ISO Leaves :-)

It appears to me that the IAHC is giving exclusive control of all gTLD's
now and forever to one single registry. 

But it is also handing the customer service part of the registry
activities to a small number of companies and eventually will allow anyone
and everyone to handle this activity.

Perhaps there is a terminology problem here. When I first suggested this
model for name registries, I used the term "registry" for what IAHC calls
 a "registrar". And I refereed to a single central database authority
where they use the term "registry". Perhaps in the final draft a new term
could be chosen for the central database manager and then IAHC can say
things like

     The central DBM does not engage in registry activities but
     provides the essential database services to all gTLD registries.

I think a number of people are missing this point.

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