Fwd: [gtld-council] GNSO PDP Dec 05: Draft Recommendations Summary

[Milton Mueller]

To supplement what Danny is saying,

The registry-registrar model is a legacy of .com's dominance. Given the
It was the easiest It would be impossible and undesirable to eliminate
the registry-registrar split in the legacy gTLDs (com, net, org). And
most of the new gTLDs that are likely to be sizable (info, mobi) as well
as the large ccTLDs (uk, de) voluntarily accept a split between retail
and wholesale levels of distribution.

But he's correct that there is no need to require this in the future.
All new TLDs have a tremendous obstacle to surmount -- the total
dominance of the name space by incumbent registries in .com, .net and
.org. If a new registry can establish themselves over that obstacle the
absence of a registrar requirement can't hurt registrars much. There is
no reason to require all of them as a rigid rule to abide by that
separation.

I wouldn't use the .int domain as an example of anything, however. It's
a mess and has only about 100 eligible entities (formal international
intergovernmental organizations).

And the community of NGOs is not small. It accounts for tens of
thousands, more likely hundreds of thousands of prospective names.

>>> Danny Younger <dannyyounger at YAHOO.COM> 9/15/2006 2:51:11 PM >>>
Hi Mawaki,

The current Registry-Registrar separation model is not
the only model currently in use.  The .int registry
does in fact act as a registrar with respect to that
TLD.  This is an important consideration in that it
serves the need of a very small community.

The NGO community is also a relatively small group.
If someone wanted to sponsor .ngo as a new TLD, why
would you require such a sponsor to necessarily use
registrars?  Why couldn't the sponsor handle the
limited amount of registrations in exactly the same
manner as the .int registry?

I do not view it as prudent from a policy perspective
to shackle new TLD applicants with a particular
distribution model -- they should be free to propose
whatever they deem would work best, even if that means
that they will act as both registry and registrar.

Let them be free to test out a proof-of-concept approach.

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