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>From: "Mark Measday" <markmeasday@hotmail.com>
>To: wg-c@dnso.org
>Subject: RE: [wg-c] voting on TLDs
>Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:29:16 GMT
>
>Did anyone ever write a marketing plan for other planned increases in TLDs? 
>There would appear to be some interestingly differential outcomes at the 
>commercial level from the different approaches, advantaging one view over 
>the other. I know there was a draft one for the IAHC proposal, but not if 
>there were others.
>
>>From: "Roeland M. J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
>>Reply-To: <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
>>To: "'Dave Crocker'" <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>,        "'Karl Auerbach'" 
>><karl@CaveBear.com>
>>CC: "'wg-c'" <wg-c@dnso.org>
>>Subject: RE: [wg-c] voting on TLDs
>>Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:08:18 -0800
>>
>>I would say that a proper vetting process is a better answer than simply
>>adding them slowly. Reduced rate of new TLD additions is no assurance of
>>quality, only a proper vetting process can give you that. For that to
>>happen, one must have requirements and standards. IMHO, that is where we
>>should be spending most of our thoughts. Not absurdities ... like voting on
>>TLD labels <phah>! Sheppard's nine points brief is interesting and I an
>>analysing it now (detailed commentary to follow, shortly after 15Mar, it's
>>corporate tax season in the "States" and MHSC is not that big <sigh>).
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Dave
>>Crocker
>>Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 4:15 PM
>>To: Karl Auerbach
>>Cc: wg-c
>>Subject: Re: [wg-c] voting on TLDs
>>
>>
>>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/
>>
>>=-=-=-=-=
>>Dave Crocker  <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
>>Brandenburg Consulting  <www.brandenburg.com>
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