Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Robert Shaw <robert.shaw@itu.int>]

Simon Higgs wrote:
> 
> But a registry can only be responsible to qualify applicants if that
> registry has complete control over the delegations (such as the ITU has

Or if the allocation policies are agreed between registrars. And here
it is appropriate to mention that I agree with you 100% that gTLDs may need 
different registration policies. For example, if a 'family name' or 'personal'
TLD was created, it's clear it's not going to scale very far if you allocate
family names directly as SLDs (e.g., smith.foo). In some cases, specific 
allocation policies per gTLD need to be defined appropriately and shared access 
to gTLDs means that it will be in the interests of all registrars to assure 
that registrations under the gTLDs are delegated in the interests of scalability.

Robert

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Robert Shaw (shaw@itu.int)
Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure
International Telecommunication Union (http://www.itu.int)
Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland

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