Re: "First come first served" RULES!

[Bob Allisat <tor@wtv.net>]

Kent:
> The MoU reiterates these principles: "the Internet Top Level Domain
> (TLD) name space is a public resource and is subject to the public
> trust".
>
>You, Jay, and the others opponents of the IAHC espouse a position 
>directly contrary -- your PRIMARY concern is about "ownership" and 
>"rights" pertaining to TLDs.

 I am not an opponant of any group of
 people in this process. I believe there
 is a lot of work ahead building consensus.
 All that adversary stuff must be left in
 the past or it will loom even more ominously
 in the future. Central to the tough work
 ahead is meshing the not necessarily mutually
 exclusive concepts of TLDs as public resources
 *and* as items of restricted stewardship. They
 are *BOTH*. I don't, do not, never have seen
 it as an either/or proposition.

 Top level domain names are already claimed and
 in commercial operation. No court in the world
 is going to allow Internic and CORE to operate
 Top Level domains without also giving the green
 light to the rest of the gang. Alternately no
 reasonable person or entity wants to see the
 entire TLD namespace scooped up in five minutes
 by unscrupulous Venture Capitalists as was the
 danger say a year ago.

 Governance in our times is a balance between the
 general good and the reality of enterprise private
 or otherwise. The Internet is no exception. Trying
 to hive the namespace off from commercial facts
 and some form of ownership or competition is as
 detrimental as allowing con artists and DNS
 speculators to steal every available Top Level
 Domain in some sort of nightmarish name grab.
 The alternative is really not so alternative
 after all... it simply extends the precedents
 set in secondary domain names while building in
 some safeguards for the general good.

 Priamry among these safegaurds should be:

 1. High technical standards
 2. Reasonable Price of admission for new registries.
 3. No/low cost for non-profit or charitable Registries
 4. Some ability to revoke registry status for gross
    non-performance, theft, fraud, bankrupcy and so on.
 5. Reserved category TLDs (ie all 4 charachter sets)
 6. Etcetera..


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 Bob Allisat

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