Re: Notes (fwd)

[Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>]

In a recent message, Christopher Ambler said:

> I took careful pains to insure that Bill knew that our registry was no longer
> experimental, as it had been for many months prior, but that we were satisfied

Hmm.  There's "experimental" in more than one sense here.
  1) experimenting with the physical aspects of running a registry.
     In this sense, you are probably correct, your registy is no longer
     experimental.

  2) experimenting with new registries in the DNS.
     This is an experiemnt in whether new TLDs were needed, the model to
     run them etc etc.  In this sense, all the new non-ISO TLDs are _still_
     experimental.  And potentially a failure, if the consensus is for
     shared TLDs rather than exclusive TLDs.

IMHO (as an "user" - remember us?), I always understood "experimental" to
mainly have meaning "2".  Meaning "1" is minimal, and any new registry would
have to go through it (Internic, ISO-based, _any_ registry) and so was only
an experiment in _your_ ability to run a registry.

> the 31st, and what happens thereafter. If we have to bring this matter up
> again in any other forum, we will; until then, I've said what I have to say

Yawn.  Go right out and say it.  Don't beat around the bush.  We all know
you mean "take legal action".

rgds
Stephen