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

Evan Leibovitch evan at telly.org
Fri Jun 8 17:39:33 UTC 2012


On 8 June 2012 11:41, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:


>  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).
>

Not really, since the reference point is based on all the applications in
aggregate. You wouldn't be able to know that (for gaming) without knowing
the contents of all other applications.

- Evan



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