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Re: [registrars] .COOP agreement


CORE Secretariat wrote:
Hi Ross,

I understand it is is easy to let oneself be carried away in a "we-versus-them" view of the world. In the one you are proposing here, the would be registrars+users on one side, an the registries+TLD sponsors on the other.

Its actually a "me vs. them" view. In this case, "me" has something today, the capability to create policy through the GNSO/ICANN process. "them" wants to take that away. "me" views this as a "bad thing" because "me" hasn't received any consideration in return for what is being given up.

There is no exchange of value - it is yet another case of the registries getting something for nothing. I don't care how you paint it up, or really, how CORE benefits from it, but the fact remains that for a straight registrar, this is a bad deal.

-ross



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