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

[Carlton Samuels]

I share John L's concerns and agree that the official posture should be to
stop the process until the elements hereunder are addressed.

Carlton

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM, John L <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> 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
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>
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