David
In message <001101be6838$06f920c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Schutt" writes:
> I'd go one step further -
>
> (this only refers to gtld's)
>
> I'd recommend that ICANN be a registration authority only. The keeper of
> lists of unique entries.
It has to set policy too.
> ICANN controls the collection, not the individual entries. ICANN does not
> publish (provide name resolution service).
I'd not have a problem with ICANN owning the Primary of the root Servers.
> ICANN licenses the right to publish (provide name resolution service for)
> entries in its list to one or more service providers. What the provider is
> licensing is not the name, but the quality of uniqueness guaranteed by
> ICANN.
Been saying this since ages.
> I or my organization registers a name with ICANN, and they add it to the
> list, guaranteeing that it will remain unique in the context of that list.
> That's it. I pay once.
I can even live with a maintenance fee as long as it is not generating
*PROFIT*. They are a non-profit organization anyway.
> I or my organization then decide that the entry should be published
> (someone should provide name service) so I contact one of the
> licensed name service providers, and request that they provide name
> resolution service for my entry in the ICANN list. I pay
> periodically to maintain name resolution service.
This way you will have to live with someone making profit.
el
