RE: [wg-c] new TLDs

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

At the risk of diving down one of your famous rat-holes, "allow" is
misplaced as that implies that those can also disallow. I don't see anyone
with the power to disallow WEB, regardless of imagined authority. I only see
editorial control of "a" root-zone. I also don't see where a single
root-zone can effectively be mandated, which is a point that the ORSC
root-zone has been proving for years. IANA/ICANN only has such powers over
the legacy zone. It is by no means the only zone.

What I rail against is political arbitrariness vs. a naturalized
business/technical determination. I believe that is a problem that many of
us have. Remove the political arbitrariness from the legacy root-zone and
the competing root-zones may disappear. Keep it, or exacerbate it, and there
will definitely be a competing root-service.

The current perception of the state of affairs is that it is grossly unfair
to many.

> Behalf Of Dave Crocker
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 4:55 PM
>
> "Allow" is exactly the term, since IANA/ICANN have authority
> for defining
> that set of TLDs.
>
> .web is not in the IANA/ICANN root registry.  In other words
> it is not a
> TLD for the IANA/ICANN domain name service.
>
> Any other TLDs you wish to offer, trying to establish precedent for
> registry-defined TLDs?
>
> d/
>
> At 04:39 PM 12/23/1999 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > > In this case, it is significant that you do not address
> the potential legal
> > > impact of letting a registry define TLDs.
> > > As to precedent, please tell us what registry has
> previously been allowed
> > > to define a new TLD (and then administer it.)
> >
> >.web at <http://webtld.com> or, for those that have a
> complete root-zone,
> ><http://webtld.web>
> >I have trouble with the use of your word "allow". It seems misplaced.
>
>
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