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Sensible (and Tactical) Thoughts on New TLDs from the Business Constituency
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What I meant was, if there's a safe harbor program for qualifed back-end registries, it ought to be set up in a way that (1) people who have been running them for a while in the alt roots and have a track record of reliable operation ought to be able to qualify even if they don't have millions of dollars; and (2) it ought to be open for technical innovations that look reasonable, even if they don't have a track record. That has nothing to do with who gets what TLD; the idea as I understand it is that people qualify to be registry operators and then hope to be selected as the delegate of a TLD, or hired by someone else who to whom a name is delegated.
Ambler's registry gets to be an 'acid test' because it appears that he's pretty unpopular with the ICANN insiders. A program that crafts reasonable and neutral terms that have a good chance of including him is one that is likley fair. Think of him as the canary in the coal mine.
This has nothing to do with whether alt root operators should get legacy LDs, who should get .web, or how one would pick among them, which to me is are different, and harder, questions.
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Re:Acid test?
by michael
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"A program that crafts reasonable and neutral terms that have a good chance of including him is one that is likley fair."
this type of program might be considered as influencing registry operators in alt roots and ICANN is already on record regarding the technical stability of this concept. I do not see how a program that can qualify a TLD registry in an alt root can be consistent with other ICANN policy as they have stated this to be. For example, how can ICANN allow a program to qualify a registry operator that has performed a history of technical instability - by their own definition? And I know IOD states to technically conform and support the single root concept - that's not my point here. The point is that proven registry experience in an alt root cannot, as far as I can determine, be consistent with ICANN's sketchy definition of technical stability, even one scaled to the size of New.net.
Ray
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| - Re:Acid test?
by netizen_kane
Wednesday January 08 2003, @04:27AM
- Re:Acid test?
by RFassett
Wednesday January 08 2003, @05:00AM
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