Greg and all,
Greg Skinner wrote:
> With no disrespect intended to either Gene or Richard, what they have
> posted does not inspire in me much confidence that there would not be a
> major dispute over the addition of new TLDs at this point. I feel this
> way for several reasons.
>
> RFC 1591 is not a legal document.
>
> Even if it were, what criteria are you using to establish 'first' use of
> a TLD? The first registration? When the servers went online? When the
> company first incorporated? When the person got the idea in their head
> that they wanted to run a TLD?
The simple and correct answer here is, the first registration...
>
>
> I have no problem with the idea of people choosing their own nameservice
> providers, but realistically, at this point, which ones will they choose?
> Furthermore, why do you need ICANN to rise up to the challenge of allowing
> this to happen? In his public statements, Mike Roberts admitted that
> people could already do this and that ICANN had no authority in this area.
This is exactly correct. But they can "Effectively" make it difficult for
those
registries and their associated TLD's not to be "Seen" globally. That
constitutes an restraint of trade on the part of the ICANN by it's use
of policy and the DNS in general...
>
>
> --gregbo
Regards,
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