Re: Johnson, Farber, Maher and Cochetti

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>]

Karl and all,

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> > >>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/Johnson.htm
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> 1.) Isn't April 28 *after* March 23, the final, drop-dead, cut-off date
> for submissions to NTIA on this matter.?

  Not really.  I am sure that any constructive comments will always be
accepted.

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> 2.) While the comments are reasonable, Item #3 would give the voting power
> over domain name policy to those who hold lots and lots of domain names.
> In other words, Procter and Gamble gets a vote for each of
> "underarms.com", etc, and those organizations which have horded up lots
> and lots of names get lots and lots of votes.  That is simply wrong.

  Why?  If they are paying for those domains and they represent a spicific
stake (Hence the term Stakeholder), they may have a proportionate input
to the process.

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> In addition that policy penalizes those who have properly used the domain
> name system in a hierarchial manner rather than spreading their operations
> over a large number of top level domains.

  This is a intresting argument, but it doesn't scale in light of the current
growth in DN's over the past year of more.  Hence the need to expand
th number of gTLD's, which is where this whole thing started.

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> We should not support policies that encourage behaviours which do not
> scale well and could harm the operation of the network.

  Agreed.  You example is not withstanding however.  The MoU on the other hand
is a execelent examply of not scaling.  One of many reasions it failed.

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>                 --karl--

 Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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