[At-Large] Strange Bedfellows

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2008-01-07 21:18:05 -0800, Bret Fausett wrote:

> 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?

If one wanted to let market forces sort out this particular problem,
the logical choice would be to leave the AGP at the discretion of
the registries, or possibly even at the discretion of agreements
between individual registries and registrars.

-- 
Thomas Roessler   <roessler at does-not-exist.org>