Re: [idn] draft-klensin-dns-role-00.txt and the author's presentation

["Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, James Seng/Personal wrote:

| Names are just names, you choose it, if it is not taken it is yours.
| Conceptually, it is the same as what we doing now, except you dont
| need to registered it like you do now. You, erm, just take it. I have
| a rough idea how to do it, but it still need refinment.

  I am assuming in your model there would be no 'registration authority',
and hence no cash payment required for reserving a portion of the
namespace.  If so, how do you avoid the 'tragedy of the commons' problem?  
If you've got a public good which exists in some finite amount, and no
market for regulating the consumption of that good, how do you prevent
folks from over-consuming?  The real value of the current cash-based
registrar model in my mind is that it provides some 'friction' against
this from happening.  Obviously US$70.00 per domain isn't going to prevent
large corporations or others with significant capital resources from
doing so, but there are other pressures that work against this as
well.  Alternative models could limit the number of reservations per
individual, corporation, etc. but this would likely be extremely
problematic.

| But hey, I am totally out of line here. If interested, lets bring it
| offline.

  Sounds like a mini-BOF topic to me. :-)

  -bws

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