Re: [wg-c] voting on TLDs

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 03:27 PM 3/5/2000 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:

>I have yet to see any technical or policy basis to have any belief
>whatsoever that additional TLDs, even thousands of them, will have any
>impact on the "stability of the Internet".

Karl,

You might not like the analyses or concerns that have been raised, but they 
have been raised repeatedly.  You have seen them and you have responded to 
them.

Administrative instability is just as bad -- actually much worse -- as 
crashing machines.  We have no evidence that a flood of new, inexperienced 
registry administrators will provide stable service.  Quite the opposite.

That does not mean refraining from adding TLD (registries).  It means 
adding them judiciously.

d/

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