At 14:46 26/06/98 +1000, you wrote:
>I kinda said this before, but I would like to ask it again.
>
>    *	Do we have concrete feedback yet on the experience of running
>	shared registry code?
>
>    *	Do we know what the problems are in making this work longterm?
>
>If we're going to give credance to the idea, we'd need to know early on
>how viable experience to date has been.  I'm not talking the business
>issues, or politics. Its the effects and concerns around the *code*
>that worries me right now.
>
>Making policy work sanely, so that party (a) doesn't register something
>party (b) refused, thats a different domain of concern right now.

This used to happen in the UK under the old Naming Committee regime. A
customer would get refused by ISP-1 and then went around until finding
ISP-n who agreed to put forward the application. As the whole thing was
collaborative, this essentially allowed individual ISP's to apply the
policy as they saw  fit.

Far better to have a single entity enforcing rules.

The gTLD CORE could operate ashared registry because names were to be
granted on a FCFS basis, so no CORE member was creating policy.

>
>Anybody here want to comment? Larry Bloch as already stated he is opposed to
>them, as it puts a CORE in the middle. I don't see this as neccessarily being
>good or bad. And it doesn't consider the technical questions.
>
>-George
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