Re: [wg-c] Exclusions

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Karl,

it would appear that a document specifiing the requirements for
applicatants to run a registry would would be within the scope of this
working group.

anyone interested in helping to develop a draft document?

-rick

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Karl Auerbach wrote:

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> > I think that it's only fair that any company/entity that is a registrar
> > should not be eligible for inclusion in the testbed phase for new
> > registries. After the testbed, they should be allowed to apply, but
> > to give a company testbed status in BOTH the registrar and
> > registry phases is unfair to other companies.
> 
> Makes sense to me - Indeed I would go further and suggest that any person
> or company that has a significant interest in an already existing TLD (to
> my mind, *any* TLD, whether gTLD, ccTLD, or otherwise) ought to be
> encouraged to fully focus on developing the asset it already has and not
> be permitted to obtain a second bite from the TLD apple.
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> By "significant" interest, I would mean anyone/company that is a registry
> or registrar for a TLD or any person who has a meaningful control power
> over such a registry or registrar.
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> Thus, for example, I would not want NSI or any of the current registries
> to have a bid for new TLDs.  Nor would, for instance, Verisign or SAIC,
> given their interest in NSI.
> 
> 		--karl--
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