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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:32:28 +0100, Niels Dettenbach wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2012, 17:09:33 schrieb Maximi89:
> 
> > were not so cooperative...
> Is there someone who could explain this in more detail?
> 
> > they have a collision with us:
> > .free
> Ok,
> 
> this is a non going so far. But beforse discussing with how many and who of 
> the other alternative NICs could be peered with on OpenNIC - how we / you 
> alle 
> would handle this major problem of possible collisions in general in the 
> future?
> 
> Does it i.e. makes sense to organise something about a real open ICANN 
> alternative where alternative roots are organiszed in by a set of common / 
> basic policies - mainly i.e. to avoid collisions. If so, how could be done 
> this? Users can only use ONE root system or "root policy set" at the end of 
> the day and many of the roots will grow in TLD space as there will come new 
> alternative roots too.

Seems to me what is needed is a united open database of tlds in which a
tld can only bcome active when signed off by, say, 75% of collaborating
NICs.  They would have to appoint a representative with signing rights.
The only common policies needed would be arrangements to prevent
squatting.  Having a majority rather than a unanimous vote would
probably avoid spoiling behaviour (by which I mean one NIC arbitrarily
blocking the tlds of another).  The open database could be mirrored by
servers nominated by each participating NIC, using some kind of
distributed management script, I guess.

Or perhaps there is a better way...  

Richard