Re: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Does anyone have a very complete understanding of how .edu is managed?

"Mark C. Langston" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:18:53AM -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
> > I agree strongly with Bret Fausett's post about why TLD proposals need to be
> > linked to specific registry proposals. I would think it self-evident, for
> > example, why labor unions should have real control over who runs .union. If
> > that means "ownership," (and it does) so be it.
> 
> Ok, so which union organization gets granted the golden goose?  UFW?
> AFL-CIO?  Teamsters?  UAW?
> 
> Name any entity, and I'm fairly sure I could come up with at least two
> entities who would purport to be the 'correct' group to control it.
> 
> Besides, this is irrelevant.  All I proposed was:
> 
> 1)  A round in which TLD are proposed and selected, giving us a TLD pool.
> 
> 2)  A roung in which registries petition to control TLDs in that pool.
> 
> In round 2, do you honestly think ICANN is going to give .union to
> some unknown entity?  Or are you afraid that the entity that you believe
> 'should' control the TLD won't be aware of the process?  If that's the
> case, the problem is not the procedure I outlined.  The problem is
> one of communication.  Perhaps the group you think should control the
> TLD doesn't want or can't handle control.  What then?  They farm it out
> to some 3rd party and forget about it, and that 3rd party starts doing
> all sorts of things with the TLD you hadn't intended.  And since we've
> not come up with a solution for how to handle removing control of a
> TLD from a registry to date, that puts us in a tricky situation, no?
> 
> --
> Mark C. Langston
> mark@bitshift.org
> Systems & Network Admin
> San Jose, CA

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