Re: [wg-c] compromise proposal

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 09:57:44AM -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
> 
> 
> John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> 
> > Get real. Everybody else but you seems to agree that the overwhelming
> > attitude is to treat ccTLDs and gTLDs as separate beasts.
> 
> Not true. I don't agree. ccTLDs are just proprietary registries. Their claim to a
> permanent right to a delegation has exactly the same status as NSI's claim to
> ownership of dot com.In every sense.

A claim of a "permanent right to a delegation" is not the issue at 
all.  The issue is the policy underlying the delegation to begin 
with.  This is completely and transparently obvious -- no new gTLDs 
have been delegated; many ccTLDs have been delegated.  If they were 
under the same delegation policy, then we would have many new gTLDs, 
as well.

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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain