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@does-not-exist.org>