Re: [Fwd: [wg-c] straw poll -- reminder]

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:16:15PM -0400, pg@name-space.com wrote:
> 
> Many people have made statements similar to the following:
> 
> "I would chose Option 1, as this seems to be an *operationally safer* way to
> start."
> 
> (emphasis added)
> 
> Many, if not most of the people who make this statement are doing so
> because they don't know the facts first-hand, not because they have the
> day to day experience of operating a DNS service or otherwise have
> the experience and operational knowledge needed to make such
> determinations based on knowledge.

I suggest that many, if not most, of the people making this 
statement make it because they have a broader definition of 
"operational" than you are using.  Indeed, I agree that adding a 
name to a zone file poses no technical difficulty.  However, there 
are *many* other operational issues involved with adding a real gTLD 
-- not the least of which is the operation of an online dispute 
resolution policy.

[...]
> 
> In a given day, there are somewhere between 3 to 8 MILLION second-
> level domains (SLDs) added to the TLD zone for "COM."

Eh?  There are only something over 4 million names, TOTAL, in .com.  
NSI just celebrated passing the 5 million mark for .com, .net, and 
.org registrations combined a couple of months ago.


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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
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