Re: exclusivity of TLD's

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 10:17 AM -0800 12/30/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

> 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.
>

Not here. CORE is going to have to be very carefully set up.

Regards,

Simon

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