Stephane, > It is not artificial, it is the way it has to work. You cannot have > multiple registries for one TLD, period. No more than you can have > perpetual motion. Be careful about making statements about impossibility without an associated impossibility proof. History is full of people who look sort of funny in retrospect. Protocols for serialization and agreement with byzantine participants are well-established. This is kind of like saying "heavier-than-air machines cannot fly," in 2006. Gun. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf