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

[Rudi Vansnick]

I fully agree with Patrick.

Several smaller organisations invested time and money to get ready for
the first run of the new GTLDs. Postponing the process for a longer time
would be suicide for them.

Nevertheless, accepting the actual proposal would also be disastrous and
would only help the rich ones. A good balance between for lying
documents and the many comments on the table is not something we can
accomplish within a few weeks, say even a month or 2. It looks like the
fees, at least that's my personal opinion, is the biggest hurdle and
maybe a split into 2 basic approaches : one group being small
organisations with maximum 100.000 domain names and a second group above
that limit (just an example of possible solution).

However, I'm still working on gathering all comments on this topic, some
delay due to a cold followed by flu ... a better start of 2009 I could
not find :-(

See you all soon

Rudi Vansnick

Patrick Vande Walle schreef:
> 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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>>> Working Group direct URL:
>>> https://st.icann.org/gnso-liaison/index.cgi?new_gtld_policy
>>>
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