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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