[registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment

Ross Wm. Rader ross at tucows.com
Thu Sep 18 19:01:08 UTC 2003


On 9/18/2003 2:07 PM Rob Hall noted that:


> Ross:  I agree it needs to suspend the current .com implementation.  I am a
> little softer on the .museum folks, as I understand they have been doing it
> for a while, and frankly, none of us gave a damn.  Given that they did it
> with ICANN permission, I see no reason to back step them as well.  Just
> Verisign, who ignored process and went ahead on their own ... damn the
> torpedoes.

To borrow Vixie's words - its about expectations. .tv, .museum and .cc 
registrants expect wildcards in their TLD, as do application developers 
and ISPs.

No one expects this of .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .aero, .name or .pro.

Anyone on this latter list must go through a community consultation 
before they can offer this service - in order that we can, as a 
"community" determine whether its reasonable to a) change our 
expectations regarding the status quo, or b) disallow the use of 
wildcards in a specific domain for specific reasons.

Drawing the lines seems very simple from my perspective.


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