CENTR workshop for ccTLD Managers

It seems I've read the rfc1591 most recently:

 This means that the same rules are applied to all requests, all
      requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion, and
      academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal
      basis.  No bias shall be shown regarding requests that may come
      from customers of some other business related to the manager --
      e.g., no preferential service for customers of a particular data
      network provider.  There can be no requirement that a particular
      mail system (or other application), protocol, or product be used.

and more:

 Significantly interested parties in the domain should agree that
      the designated manager is the appropriate party.

      The IANA tries to have any contending parties reach agreement
      among themselves, and generally takes no action to change things
      unless all the contending parties agree; only in cases where the
      designated manager has substantially mis-behaved would the IANA
      step in.

      However, it is also appropriate for interested parties to have
      some voice in selecting the designated manager.

      There are two cases where the IANA and the central IR may
      establish a new top-level domain and delegate only a portion of
      it: (1) there are contending parties that cannot agree, or (2) the
      applying party may not be able to represent or serve the whole
      country.  The later case sometimes arises when a party outside a
      country is trying to be helpful in getting networking started in a
      country -- this is sometimes called a "proxy" DNS service.

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Would you like to comment on that??

It's so obvious, yet you're trying to tell me we are wrong??

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and here's ripe:

As for "special case" registries as defined above, it is recommended that
where such a registry
     charges for service, it should, in addition to complying with the
recommendations listed above:

          relate charges to costs of operation and apply all revenues to
such costs;
          regularly publish a budget of its anticipated operating costs and
revenue;
          publish guidelines and apply these uniformly;
          ensure equality of access to registration services;
          aim to achieve consensus within the community it serves as to the
disposal of any surplus
          revenues;
          regularly publish accounts of income and expenditure ;
          refrain from using their unique position as leverage in any other
business venture.


I don't really want to comment on that - read it, then visit
http://www.bol.bg/protest/

It's not me alone;
the .bg TLDA is using their (his, rather) position to gain business from
competitors (example was given at the InnternetExpo '98 in Sofia by
www.onlin.bg about a customer of theirs which domain name was not registered
in time, because they didn't want the .bg TLDA to be their provider),
etc., etc., etc., etc....)


Veni Markovski,
Chairmain, the Internet Society - Bulgaria,
http://www.isoc.bg, http://www.bulgaria.com/isoc/, http://www.bol.bg/isoc/
phone: (+359-2) 9809666, phone/fax (+359-2) 9806431
mailing address: p.o.box 71, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria





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