Re: [IFWP] Re: Thoughts on ICANN

[Gene Marsh]

Richard Sexton wrote:
>>Deciding who gets to run ".biz"
>
>RFC1591 says "first come, first served" and the document says it
>appies to all levels od the domain tree.
>
>I can't see how we "decide" who run a top level domain any more than
>we "decide" who should run the domain amazon.com. The DNS has been
>no more democratic than, say, the patent system. "we" don't "vote"
>to see who should get a patent or how it's shared.


A better model would be for the trustee/owner (whatever word works for you)
to determine which root systems their TLD would be best operated from.

Gene...

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