[ncdnhc-discuss] IMPORTANT: Need guidance from you regarding .org

[Dave Crocker]

At 06:17 PM 12/13/2001 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>2) ICANN management (which formally has no policy
>making role) believes that the concept of a "sponsored,
>unrestricted domain" does not fit into its pre-defined
>contracts, which divides the world into "sponsored"
>and "unsponsored" domains. So they have promoted
>the (false) idea that the idea "cannot be executed."

False?  You are rendering a legal opinion?

Folks should note that the contradiction in the term "sponsored 
unrestricted domain" was raised in this group a number of times, and was 
ignored.  We should not act like the concern is new or strange.  It is, in 
fact, a contradictory construct.

d/

>3. ORG should be marketed in a way that
>differentiates and enhances its unique identity,
>not sold as a clone of .com

Why should it be "marketed" at all"  What is the community benefit in our 
putting this effort in and incurrent the cost that will result, from having 
to pay for the marketing?

If we are seriously interested in serving the needs of non-profits, we 
should pursue a structure that permits minimal cost.  Marketing is very 
expensive.


>We could avoid a lot of debate if we were willing
>to allow any registrar to register names in .org and
>not try to regulate how they market it. In that case
>the policy could be changed to treat ORG as an
>unsponsored, unrestricted domain and we could
>retain all the other points 1-4.

Given that dot-Org has existed for nearly 15 years, it is almost certainly 
not constructive to try to change its basic role.  It has had open 
registration for a very long time.  Changing that policy now, to create and 
enforce rules about the way it is marketed -- even by the registrars -- 
will primarily serve only to raise the price of the domain name.

Seeks decisions that reduce cost.  Regulated increased cost, not reduces it.

d/






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