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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Jun 27 08:21:19 2008

Date: 27 Jun 2008 12:21:01 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5647AFE5-D11E-496C-A8FC-647BD98BB9C0@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

>> http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/00990.html
>
>The SNR in the gtld WG was very low, which I think may have been an  
>influencing factor.

Yeah, it was dominated by a bunch of small-scale amateur greedy
speculators, while the solution was ICANN which is dominated by a
bunch of large-scale professional greedy speculators.

We did come up with the registrar/registry split, though.

http://www.iahc.org/contrib/draft-iahc-levine-shared-00.txt

R's,
John


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