[governance] RE: Human rights and new gTLDs

[Avri Doria]

On 1 okt 2007, at 15.51, Lee McKnight wrote:

> I understand the auction method we advocated has been rejected for a
> beauty contest approach of picking winners and losers.


as far as i know, or hope.  no method has been thrown out.  all  
methods seem to have problems.

- beauty contest as you mention involve the eye of the beholders.
- auctions favor the rich.
- lotteries have legal constraints. (my favorite - when something is  
already unpredictable might as well let the fates decide. personally  
i think that if people knew it would be subjected to luck they would  
be quicker to find a compromise solution)

and there may be other methods, including other possible mechanisms  
for randomized selection.

but who knows what will be the right method, or whether one method  
will fit all.  i think the recommendation itself did not favor any  
particular method.

a.




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