--On Sunday, 19 July, 2020 21:52 -0700 Larry Masinter <LMM@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Given the people lining up to claim their name > https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml > #uri-schemes-1 is it possible to put a moratorium on > provisional registrations? Larry, Two thoughts: (1) This situation might be different and I don't pretend to understand the tradeoffs that might apply, but I think that our general experience in the past has been that, if we make registration harder or impossible, people just squat and we end up with name conflicts and difficulty in tracking them. (2) I don't have time this morning to sort the list and do any kind of statistics, but, as I scan down the list, it looks like most of those provisional registrations come from one company and its employees. That is not the pattern one would expect from a land rush on names, people trying to lock others out of specific names, etc. If the concern were really that there are too many provisional registrations of names that are possibly not being either retired or made permanent, a discussion with Dave or Microsoft about what is going on might be more productive, and would certainly be faster, than trying to change registration procedures. Looking at that list suggests that, at least for provisional registrations, it would be really nice to have the registration date, and any update dates, visible in the registry. If we are going to start making changes, I suggest that might be a good idea for all temporary or provisional registrations, not just for this purpose but for other registries as well. john
