RE: Success Metrics (was Re: [ga] why we are being ignored)

["Ali Farshchian" <ali@circleid.com>]

These are the closest we have been able to come to when it comes to such
reports or metrics:

http://www.circleid.com/article/66_0_1_0_C/
http://www.circleid.com/article/72_0_1_0_C/


Regards,

Ali Farshchian
http://www.circleid.com

|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Richard
|Henderson
|Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:08 PM
|To: George Kirikos; DannyYounger@cs.com; ga@dnso.org
|Cc: vb@bertola.eu.org
|Subject: Re: Success Metrics (was Re: [ga] why we are being ignored)
|
|
|ICANN introduced the New TLDs with a much-vaunted "Proof of
|Concept" process
|to accompany them.
|
|The launch of the new TLDs was to be a carefully studied test by which to
|measure the viability of any future New TLDs.
|
|They committed themselves to a New TLD Evaluation Process. Members of the
|public have been contributing valuable information about the New TLDs for
|almost 2 years on ICANN's New TLD Public Fora (which sadly Stuart Lynn
|branded "a joke"). In reality, many of the problems associated with these
|New TLDs first broke to the public through the vigilance of the public, on
|these fora, as well as at ICANNWatch.
|
|Meanwhile, what has ICANN done to measure the 'proof of concept', to
|evaluate the New TLDs, and assess their viability?
|
|Firstly, ICANN has been asked to clarify exactly who is going to chair the
|New TLD Evaluation Process, which has yet to formally commence.
|(There was a
|committee set up to define the aims and methods of a subsequent evaluation
|process - but where is the process itself?)
|
|Secondly, ICANN required mandatory and publishable Evaluation Reports from
|the New TLD Registries. These were required under Appendix U of the
|ICANN-Registry Agreements. Very specific details had to be assessed and
|reported back on by the Registries, and it was made clear that these were
|predominantly for public consumption.
|
|I have been asking ICANN staff and Board *for over a year* why these
|Evaluation Reports have never been published. They were mostly due for
|publication 12 to 18 months ago. I first asked in Spring of 2002. There was
|no reply. I then asked again in the Summer of 2002. Stuart Lynn said that
|ICANN staff had been "too busy to upload the reports onto the ICANN
|website". I asked again in Autumn 2002, and again in January 2003
|and Spring
|2003.
|
|It is now June 2003 - and ICANN staff still have not had enough time to
|upload the Registry Evaluation Reports. My 12 year old daughter could have
|done it in half an hour.
|
|What does this tell us about the seriousness of ICANN's commitment to the
|"Proof of Concept", the Evaluation Process, and the need to consider all
|aspects of New TLD releases, rather than just their own arbitrary criteria?
|
|And ICANN always goes on about wanting to involve all constituencies in
|participation and policy development. How can people engage in informed
|participation, if key data is withheld (in what I now regard as an
|obstructive manner)?
|
|The issue of New TLDs is of immense interest and concern, internationally,
|to sincere internet users all over the world.
|
|This California quango gives the appearance of just acting
|arbitrarily, with
|inadequate respect or acknowledgement of the viewpoints of the
|world beyond.
|
|Where are the Evaluation Reports?
|
|Where is the Evaluation Process?
|
|Why have I waited 400 days for an acknowledgement from Dan Halloran to a
|serious and detailed mail about the new TLDs? Why does ICANN arbitrarily
|ignore parties it does not wish to face?
|
|This thread is entitled "Why we are being ignored".
|
|I have been ignored for over 400 days on the issue of the New TLDs. How is
|that for ICANN's much vaunted "Responsiveness"?
|
|I'm just grateful that ICANNWatch has afforded space to publish
|the detailed
|concerns over the release of these New TLDs, and is prepared to offer a
|voice to the worldwide constituency which ICANN treats with disdain.
|
|If we do not fully evaluate the difficulties, abuse of process,
|and problems
|which accompanied previous New TLDs, then how can we hope to avoid a
|repetition of similar problems?
|
|
|Sincerely,
|
|Richard Henderson
|
|----- Original Message -----
|From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>
|To: <DannyYounger@cs.com>; <ga@dnso.org>
|Cc: <vb@bertola.eu.org>
|Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:44 PM
|Subject: Success Metrics (was Re: [ga] why we are being ignored)
|
|
|> Hello,
|>
|> While they're pondering new TLDs, have they ever issued a report on the
|> "success" of the old ones that were added?
|>
|> In particular, has ICANN ever even defined metrics for judging the
|> success/failure of new TLDS? Without specifying those criteria IN
|> ADVANCE, the whole thing is a sham. This came up in the WLS debate,
|> too, where the only "success criteria" was whether Verisign makes money
|> (for real, check Verisign's answers to public questions in the document
|> at http://www.verisign-grs.com/wls_responses.pdf ), and no study of the
|> existing landscape was ever conducted, to be able to judge the impact
|> of any changes.
|>
|> Sincerely,
|>
|> George Kirikos
|> http://www.kirikos.com/
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