From: Patrick Greenwell [mailto:patrick@cybernothing.org] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:14 PM
You mentioned in your pre-announcement TLD operators being eligible for this new list, but made no mention of domain name registrars.
I count 141 ICANN "fully: accrediated domain name registrars, with an unknown number of secondary registrars due to systems like OpenSRS.
These organizations collectively handle second-level name resolution for the overwhelming majority of the millions of .com, .net, and .org domains in use on the Internet. And while I haven't done a survey, I'd surmise that they overwhelmingly use BIND.
Will these 141 organizations many of whose business relies on BIND be eligible for your fee-based list? Do they consitute providers of "critical infrastructure" in your eyes?
Considering that they have a positive revenue model (vs TLD registries that don't, or have negative revenue models) I would suggest that they pay for it and help support ISC/BIND.