I don't understand this "currently employed
technology" described below. We certainly have the technology to keep
two or three or a hundred databases synchronized. Why doesn't ICANN just
end NSI's monopoly by allowing many registry companies? Each registry
company would only need to transport the delta's (changes) amongst themselves
for all to have a copy of the same database.
This test phase of ICANN should be about breaking up the
registry monopoly. Could someone please explain why the below paragraph
makes such an enormous and incorrect assumption?
From ICANN's proposal:
To introduce competition to the greatest extent possible, while recognizing
that under currently employed technology it is not practical to divide
responsibility for operating the registry (database) for a single domain, in its
Green
Paper and
White Paper
the U.S. Government adopted a model in which the provision of domain name
registration services is segmented into registry- and registrar-level
services.