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

[Alan Greenberg]

At 08/06/2012 10:34 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>DA is also based on something random -- that is, whatever reference 
>moment the selected timestamp is supposed to be closest to.
>The main difference between my checksum method and DA is that the 
>applicant's "entry" -- in the form of the checksums of their 
>applications -- already exists and can't possibly be gamed after the fact.
>
>I agree with Avri, that if the checksum method is susceptible to 
>challenge as an illegal lottery of chance then so is DA.

Yup. That is what I said, although perhaps not as clearly.


>OTOH, there are a number of non-random methods to create the 
>reference point for my alternate scheme. One of them could be to 
>collect the first page of every application, make a checksum of THAT 
>resulting (1900 page) document, and use that checksum as the 
>reference against which to measure the others.

I like that one! Of  course, if they had announced that ahead of 
time, it could have been gamed as well (presuming the page size and 
algorithm were fixed).


>- Evan