[ncdnhc-discuss] One suggestion for .ORG TF participant!

[Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM]

Dave,

well, your question does beg that either the two-step bidding idea be
admitted as lacking, or that it be better fleshed out.

I'm afraid that some sense of not appreciating the sheer size of an
operation like this, and the complexities of mission-critical, real-time
provision of services, sort of explains the preeminence of political
criteria for the selection of the new .org registry.

This is not an amateur operation. Not necessarily to be run by a
for-profit, existing registry, but indeed by a number of non-commercial
organizations which
have been gradually squeezed out of this constituency: universities,
academic networks, ccTLDs, etc. Now, these are not out there setting up
fronts for their operations. I hope one or more non-profits interested in
running a decent .org are tapping those organizations instead of what
could be happening, ie speculatively preparing
for the bonanza of subcontracting to a commercial venture.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 10:52 PM 4/24/2002 -0500, Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM wrote:
> >does your proposal for a two-stage bidding for .org mean that the Board
> >selects the non-profit, based on community input and consensus-based
> >rules, and then the non-profit selects the operator without such input and
> >rules?
>
> Unfortunately that removes all technical and operational considerations
> from the ICANN selection process.  TLDs are first and foremost operational
> infrastructure, so this suggestion would seem to get priorities exactly
> reversed.
>
> d/
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