RE: [IFWP] RE: Privacy of Domain Registration Information

[Greg Skinner]

"David Schutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I'd recommend that ICANN be a registration authority only. The keeper of
>lists of unique entries.

>ICANN controls the collection, not the individual entries. ICANN does not
>publish (provide name resolution service).

Doesn't this conflict with ICANN's bylaws?  This would effectively make
ICANN a registry.

>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.

The primary advantage of this model seems to be that you pay once.
However, you might wind up paying more for this registration than
paying the Internic (or whoever) to make modifications to your
entries, as appropriate.  I think this would be a bad idea, because it
effectively makes ICANN a competitor to the other registries.

--gregbo