Re: [wg-c] registry contracts

[rnesson@law.harvard.edu]

  I like Jonathan's suggestion as well as some that come before.  I am
concerned about the question of how the new registries will give out
SLDs once they open.  How is this problem dealt with?  Maybe registries
should propose a way to deal with it in their application to join the
testbed.  Success in this aspect of running a registry seems fundamental
to the success of the testbed process as a whole.  

   Rebecca



> 
>  So here's a possible, adapted, plan for the testbed (drawing on the
above,
> plus the suggestions of several other folks):  Each would-be registry
> submits a proposal to ICANN describing its technical and financial
> qualifications, its proposed TLD string and charter, and whether it
will
> operate on a for-profit or a cost-recovery basis.  If it proposes to
> operate on a for-profit basis, it must submit its "ceiling price" --
the
> price for registry services that it will not exceed during the
delegation
> period.  ICANN considers those applications, on the understanding that
it
> will seek to authorize a mix of for-profit and non-profit registries;
it
> then grants the ones that seem to it best.  Registries are constrained
by
> the ceiling prices they declared.
> 
>  Thoughts?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> Jonathan Weinberg
> weinberg@msen.com
>