Re: combined shared/private?

[Dave Crocker / IMC <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 02:42 PM 9/30/97 -0700, andi payn wrote:
>The assumption here is that all non-shared TLDs have rules of access for
>registrants, and all shared TLDs have open access to all registrants. There
>is no reason that this has to be true, and I believe that the only reason

	Unfortunately, this is not a mathematics exercise in combinatorials.  my
previous note stated quite specifically a concern over likely confusion by
potential registrants.  it is necessary to make it likely that they will
know whether a registration is for an exclusive or a shared registry.  if
there is a scheme which permits sharing and non-sharing which is not as
strict as i described but which has a high degree of assurance that
registrants won't get confused about what type of registry they are signing
up with, please describe it.

	the focus, in case I haven't been clear, is what serves the consumer best.
 establishing non-competitive registries which will create confusion and
registrant lock-in is not in the interest in the consumer.

	for that matter, exclusive commercial control over a TLD is not in the
general interest of the consumer.  Exclusive control is a fall-back which
should be tolerated, not sought, and only when sharing is simply not
reasonable.

d/

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