[At-Large] Strange Bedfellows

[Bret Fausett]

My perception is that the NCUC ("Non-Commercial Users Constituency")  
believes that it defends principles more than short-term end-user  
interests. Among the active participants in the NCUC are many with  
libertarian bents, who prefer market forces to regulation. With regard  
to domain name tasting, they might well argue that the burden of  
tasting is on registries, who must bear the additional load of short- 
term registrations. Registries have the power to stop domain tasting  
if they choose to do so (e.g. PIR addressed this in .ORG), but since  
they choose not to, why should anyone else intervene?

I believe there's overlap between the NCUC and the At Large list, so  
they can speak for themselves, but I've tried to articulate what I  
believe is the underlying rationale. (P.S. I shared this view when we  
started thinking about domain tasting, way back when I was the ALAC  
liaison to the GNSO, but I've since come around to the view that users  
*are* impacted by these short term registrations. I credit Jean for  
turning me around.)

      -- Bret


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