At 01:40 PM 2/16/99 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
>On 16-Feb-99 Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>> [AVC] - Even though they are unenforceable, they might well serve a
purpose.
>> A set of rules governing use don't have to be applied beforehand, although
>> there should be an element of this. A set of rules can also serve to
>> disqualify any protest when a rule-breaker is thrown out.
>>
>> For instance, suppose you had a chartered TLD, .ISP, which had a set of
>> restrictions intended to make the domain one for internet access providers
>> only. Suppose there were a set of initial automatic tests *before* the
>> domain was delegated to an applicant, for instance you had to have some
>> functional nameservers and some functional mail servers. Suppose there
were
>> also some non-tested restrictions, for instance you had to have at least 50
>> dial-up customers.
>
>
>But this forces ISPs to use a seperate domain name for their online internet
>access business that is different than the domain name they might use for
other
>diversified businesses they are engaged in. A domain name is an internet
>identity really, and to require them to have one identity for their internet
>access business, and one for their other business interests is really overly
>restrictive, and unlike ANYTHING in real commerce.
>
>When a business signs up for a chartered TLD, they are in affect now tied
in to
>using that identity ONLY for that narrowly defined business type.
This argument was made, in the past, for complaining about COM/NET, in
that, ISPs had to have both domains as NET was supposed to be for Internet
infrastructure-only.
>That is unfortunate for them, and I bet it will be quite unpopular in that
>regard.
No more so than it was in the past. But, again, this is a clear case of
improperly understood charter development. Most business cases have a clear
idea of what they are in business to do, or which business they are in. If
they can not find a TLD that matches their business needs then maybe they
should charter their own TLD? Unlike SLD registrations, TLD charters must
be manually reviewed, but the rate of additions is much lower. I really
don't see millions of TLDs, but then, no one foresaw millions of COM SLDs
either.
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