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

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

I don't think ICANN has to have a very extensive review of technical and
operational consideration.  Merely specify minimum criteria.  In fact, I
think this is a fundamental error of ICANN's. 

The incentives exist for the non-profit to get a firm that will do a good
job.  ICANN doesn't need to tie its hands so tightly.  Trust market
forces, don't re-invent state socialism.

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM wrote:

> 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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