[ALAC] ICANN News Alert -- New gTLD Batching Announcement

[Alan Greenberg]

At 08/06/2012 12:51 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>On 7 Jun 2012, at 12:08, Alan Greenberg wrote:
> > I believe that sine a "random number" is involved in the, it would be
> > considered a lottery under California law and is thus not allowed.
>
>Or at least that is the ICANN Legal staff's contention.

Yup. But I suspect that an outright random selection is pretty much 
likely to be considered a game of chance. Digital Archery, however is 
more interesting. If is is not game-able (as ICANN contends), then I 
don't see how it differs from a random lottery. If it is game-able, 
then we have an unfair situation. Either way it does not seem to be 
an appropriate solution.

Alan