Re: Core Options

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Rick H. Wesson allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> 
> The lighter the load on the central core DB the greater the differences
> will be in the regestries the more competition. If each regestry has
> to implement most of the functionality that NSI has had to, less the
> [trival] generation of zone files, the better the business case for a
> company that only does registrations.
> 
> This is the reason it is important to discuss these matters, as it
> directly impacts business plans for a regestrie.

You have hit the nail exactly on the head.  Registrars need to be 
able to differentiate themselves for there to be meaningful 
comptition.  The corollary is that we have to expect that registrars 
will fail *as part of the normal course of events*.

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