Re: PAB Shop charter 1st draft

Kevin J. Connolly (pab@cybersharque.com)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:59:51 -0500


William Allen Simpson wrote:

> I'm feeling inspired. It is a lovely morning in the heartland, sunny,
>
> temperature much higher than normal -- those tulips are going to be
> unhappy when it snows again in a few weeks....
>
> Using the Arts as a base, here is a stab at a more popular domain.
> Minor changes are the purpose (A.1), very general; and a slightly
> higher
> number of DNS servers (B.2, C.2), since we would expect a higher hit
> rate, but not so high as to be burdensome to smaller enterprises.
>
> Shop Domain Charter
>
> A. Purpose
>
> 1. This Top-Level Domain is intended to support entities that
> are
> involved in retail electronic commerce.

So I'm not to use a .shop SLD to promote my mail order, walk-in,
service, or wholesale business?

Also, these comments are cumulative with those to the .nom and .arts
domains. There are points raised in those comments which I won't repeat
here for the sake of minimizing the amount of bandwidth I consume.

>

> 2. The registry must have (or share) 7 or more topologically
> dispersed secondary zone servers, in addition to the primary
> master.

Oh, come on now. I do think that CORE can decide how to deploy
nameservers for its zones.

Kevin J. Connolly
Just another PAB Member