Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> This is a useless discussion.   Recriminations do not change the past.
>
>True, but effectively what you're saying is that this special-use
>registry could be used by anyone who's prepared to [squat|use a TLD
>without registering it] in the right ways to get around the ICANN
>allocation procedures.  I think that's spelled "moral hazard" in
>economics.

Not really, because what you get by squatting on a TLD is nothing like
what you get if you rent it from ICANN.  Squats are all local
(mis-)use, with names only leaking onto the public Internet by
accident. 

It also seems implicit in this document that the plan is only to add
names to the registry if there is existing evidence that they're
significantly squatted, by which time it's too late anyway.

R's,
John