Re: Some ideas on the future direction of the RIPE TLD-WG

[Marcel Schneider <]

On Sunday, 12 Sep 1999, "Kurt Jaeger" writes:

Hello

>> It may indeed be that only registries (only registries are 
>> members of CENTR) need to be involved in TLD issues.  
>> 
>> Is there another view ?

> Basically, if they come to common standards, then there's no
> need to intervene 8-)

> As we currently delegate domains from more than one country,
> some, ahem, standardisation might be useful. Currently, it's a mess
> with different rules, templates etc for each country with respect to almost
> everything.

Hope you are aware that the registrars under COM/NET /ORG
are allowed to have different policies as well. Check out
e.g. NSI's that from register.com and the one from Namesecure at
http://www.namesecure.com/services/dispute_policy.cfm.

You will find many differences.

I'm not against harmonization but you may also be aware the
most commonly used policy, the one from NSI, is considered
a debacle, at least with respect to marks. Would it help
if anybody would adopt something that is considered a flop ?

> I'm not sure whether this deviation from common ground is obvious
> to the TLDs themselves, as they normally only deal with their
> own TLD 8-)

We know quite well what's happening outside our territory, don't
be afraid ;-).

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