Re: [ga-roots] ICANN Policy -- revised version

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2001-06-18 12:04:50 -0400, L Gallegos wrote:

>The post referred to creation of roots and TLDs, not SLD 
>registrations.  There are some three thousand TLDs and several 
>roots that are new and more coming all the time.  I am not saying 
>whether this is a good or bad thing, Dass, only that it is 
>occurring.

>It also has nothing to do with whether any of the TLDs will be 
>popular, open, restricted (chartered) or what business models will 
>be utilized.  You took the post and changed the focus of the 
>response to refer to SLDs.

That was me, not Dassa.

But anyway, I think that my question concerning the number of 
registrations in your alternative TLD is one which should be 
answered in order to be able to judge your remark on a TLD "rush" - 
because, of course, we could start to count all those misconfigured 
pseudo-intranets which are confusing SLDs and TLDs, and are 
certainly contributing to the TLD zoo.  However, this zoo's 
inhabitants are about as uninteresting for any ICANNesque 
deliberations as it can get.

Also, a "rush" of alt.roots (and in TLDs being offered by these 
alt.roots) which doesn't coincide with a corresponding rush of SLD 
registrations under these TLDs very much looks like a rush of 
childish fools trying to play Internic - which is, frankly, 
something ICANN should indeed ignore, and on which even the 
development of a III 3 b policy would be far too much effort and 
honor.

(I suppose that Kent and friends will subsume (almost?) all 
alt.roots in this category.)

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Thomas Roessler                        http://log.does-not-exist.org/
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