On 3/29/11 6:31 PM, Richard Tindal wrote:
Does general ALAC membership understand that a recommendation to numerically limit the first round would substantially delay approval of the Applicant Guidebook? I'm interested to know if this point is well understood.
Nope. I can't say that I've come to that understanding. Quoting from your earlier note ...
Simply put, this limitation mechanism would need to find a rationale way for us to decide that the .NYC application (say) was allowed proceed, and the .PARIS application (say) was not.
While possible in theory, just as in theory a maximum of 500 applications in a round could mean zero, or one, my thinking is that a significant number of the municipal applications I know about -- Barcelona, Paris, New York, ... will be in any 500 or fewer first tranche of applications, even if the majority of the first, and any subsequent tranche of applications are made by domainers or brand managers or generic standard .biz/.info imitators or IDN extensions of Verisign's .com/.net/.name set of franchises. In theory of course there could be 501 public interest applications by non-profit entities representing public administrations, and a 500 per tranche limit would necessitate finding the one application that would be deferred ... If you're going to attempt to persuade the NARALO subscribers perhaps using a less unlikely hypothetical than an exclusive choice between one of the first three city administrations to actually engage in the selection of a registry operator would be more credible. Eric