At 05:16 PM 6/26/99 -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
uniform anything...I want choice that is brought
>about by my registrar being able establish its own
>policies, practices, whois systems, whatever.
By equivalence, this means wanting 800 telephone numbers to be free or
charged, according to whichever company provides it (or, perhaps, whichever
telephone company you call FROM... tough to tell how to apply the generally
stated free-market concept to this particular domain, absent efforts to
deal with the ugly details.) Think about how counter-productive that
particular "choice" is.
Generic desire for free-market operation is fine. Real-world constraints
don't permit unfettered operation. So rather than just espousing the
generic concepts, it is essential to follow through and look carefully at
the implications of proffered principles and details.
For example the thin registry model is without precedent and, therefore, is
inherently high risk -- for any major change to an essential infrastructure
service, the change is inherently high risk. At the least, it has already
been clearly identified as substantially raising the barrier to entry by
registrars, since it imposes MUCH higher cost and performance requirements
on them.
d/.
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