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

[Patrick Vande Walle]

While I agree it would be best to suspend the process until the concerns
are addressed, I think we should keep in mind that several potential new
registries have already invested a lot of time, energy and money for a long
time in this saga. 
For example, the DotBerlin folks have raised €1 million to cover their
direct and indirect costs for submitting an application. They and their
investors now expect to be able to recover their investment. Money's tight,
especially in the current economic context.  

I see some potential collateral damage, with new entrants throwing the
towel, leaving the stage free for incumbents to apply for all the strings
their deep pockets can afford. The latter have only marginal indirect
costs. They can afford to wait. 

By asking to suspend the process, we risk killing innovation and we play
the game of the incumbents.

Patrick

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:32:38 -0500, "Carlton Samuels"
<carlton.samuels at uwimona.edu.jm> wrote:
> 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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