[At-Large] [GTLD-WG] my submissions to new gTLD statement

[John L]

> Thank you for your effort in producing this document.

Yes, it's a good start.

> While the Statement makes clear that which users find to be 
> objectionable, I am having trouble finding the clear advice that we seek 
> to offer to the Board.

My advice would be to stop the new gTLD process until:

a) the promised Economic Study is released and evaluated

b) ICANN develops and implements compliance processes to manage *all* of 
the requirements in existing registry and registrar contracts, and 
develops compliance processes for any new or different requirements in new 
contracts.

> 2.  Are we asking that we proceed with the rollout of IDN gTLDs and IDN 
> ccTLDs while we put generic TLDs on the back burner?

I realize that there is a lot of pressure from the non-anglophone world 
for IDN TLDs, but would rather that they delay IDN TLDs until at least the 
compliance is in place.  I suspect the economic study is more relevant to 
IDN TLDs than to ASCII ones since there's likely too be close synonyms 
among names in different languages.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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