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Simon Poole (poole@eunet.ch) wrote:

> While as said before we are not opposed to this service being self-
> supporting, we still have a number of concerns with the current
> proposal:
> 
> 	- charging scheme:
> 
> 	  The current scheme allows for a relativ small amount of
>         money to reserve large amounts of names. So for example
>         for the small yearly cost of 1.5MCHF, it is possible to
>         reserve all 3 letter first level domain names. We propose
>         a progressive scheme with increasing costs for every 
> 	  additional domain name, for example:
> 
> 		n*n*96CHF for the n'th domain name
> 
> 	  Resulting in the following yearly costs:
> 
> 		1st domain name		96CHF
> 		2nd		       384CHF
> 		3rd		       864CHF
> 		4th		      1536CHF
>               5th                   2400CHF
>               6th                   2456CHF
>               .............................
>               100th               960000CHF
>               etc.
> 
> 	  This still allows an organisation to reserve and use a
>         reasonable number of names, but stop clear abuse. Since
>         this scheme obviously results in more income for the
> 	  registry, it should be considered to lower the price and
> 	  go to a factor of n*n*n.


The proposed progressiv scheme sounds very interesting, since it might

  -  limit the number of second level domains and
  -  lower the cost for a single domain.

But we had significant trouble to verify the identity of an organization in
the past (to limit the number of domains per organization :-( ). The exceptions
made are a constant reminder. Our proposed new rules need no checking of the
applicant.

Going back to check the applicant, we forsee at least the following problems:

  -  do you count a husband and its wife as a single entity?
  -  do you count several organizations belonging to a holding as one
     organization?
  -  what if the organizational structure changes, or what if they divorce?

Although we see the advantages, espescially also the probabely reduced 
number of domains, the administrative disadvantages are too high.
If a workable solution to the above problem could be found, we would be
happy to hear.




> 	- cutover procedures
> 
> 	  There are no clearly defined cutover procedures, which
> 	  will result in a total chaos on January the 3rd. In particular
> 	  because of the 1st come, 1st served nature of registration
>         priority proposed, a lot more care has to be applied to
>         definition of date and time of receipt of vaild registration
> 	  requests.



The cutover works as follows:
Mails (and faxes, letters) received until 2.1.96 will be processed
according to the old rules. Espescially important is the restriction one
domain per organization. It has been publicly proposed to flood SWITCH
with domain applications.

Starting 3.1.96, the new form has to be used. Requests received with the old
form will be sent back with a kind request to use the new form.

The introduction of the new procedure will be a challange, but within the
promised 10 working days we should be able to catch up.

A problem, that is not easy to solve, is the racing condition between two
requests for the same domain name. Mails will be processed in the order
they appear in the mailbox. Faxes and letters will be processed also in the
sequence they arrive. They are entered within 5 working days into the
electronic request form and sent with e-mail to the standard address. There
the applications are queued up together with the other forms received by
e-mail.





> 	- registry organisation
> 
> 	  It sad to say, but the track record of the current registry
> 	  and currents events, raise grave doubts as to if Switch is
> 	  the right organisation to carry on with running the registry.
> 	  Just the fact that they have not even removed the -clear-
> 	  misrepresentations that they make in the announcement of
>         the charging scheme, speaks for itself.
> 



The InterNIC database shows as creation date for the top-level domain CH
May 87:

Switzerland (Swiss Confederation) top-level domain (CH-DOM)
   SWITCH Teleinformatics Services
   Limmatquai 138
   CH-8001 Zurich
   SWITZERLAND

   Domain Name: CH

   Administrative Contact:
      Brunner, Thomas  (TB192)  Brunner@SWITCH.CH
      +41 1-268-1530 (FAX) +41-1-268-1568
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Huber, Willi  (WH1101)  ch-zone-contact@SWITCH.CH
      +41 1 268 1530 (FAX) +41 1 268 1568

   Record last updated on 06-Oct-93.
   Record created on 20-May-87.

This is the source, where the year comes from in our general statement about
CH domain. At that time, there was no delegation of the CH name space to
SWITCH, SWITCH didn't even exist, there were DNS entries at CSnet for e-mail
delivery to the CH domains. The domain was created on request of Prof. B.
Plattner, ETHZ. When SWITCH was created, responsiblity for the domain was
delegated to SWITCH. After SWITCH had IP connectivity to the States, a DNS top
level domain server was set up here in Zuerich and the CH name space was fully
delegated to SWITCH. The exact date of this delegation is April 25, 1990.

We will change the document <URL:http://www.switch.ch/domain/newdom-reg.html>.
The document <URL:http://www.switch.ch/domain/newdom-info.htm> will be reworked
completely.


> 	  In particular no scheme has been presented that will allow
> 	  public control of the use of the received funds and future
> 	  budgets for the registry. This is a non-negotiable re-
> 	  quirement for any charging scheme.
> 

We have made a budget for '96 and '97 and calculated the tarifs based on those
figures. We will publish the annual balance not later than March of the
following year. This will also show the amount in the fund for legal matters.


Willi Huber

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   INET: huber@switch.ch | Tel: +41 1 268 1530 | Fax: +41 1 268 1568
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