[gtld-com] Suggestions regarding the gtld report
Hello
All,
I have been
following the recent discussions on the gtld and council list, and also received
input from others.
I think that the
council needs to be careful that we distinguish between providing simple advice
in direct response to the question from the ICANN Board, and also indicate areas
where policy development should be undertaken.
My view is that the
answer to the advice is:
"It was agreed that
a future expansion should take place in such a way that was demand-driven and
bottom-up and in a way that increased competition while avoiding net user
confusion and deception".
The GNSO council
could then recommend that a policy development process be initiated to determine
a set of objective criteria using as input some of the "example criteria"
considered by the committee.
I have made some
edits to the gtld committee report to convey that sense and avoid use of
"recommended" and "must" with regard to the preliminary work
completed.
Note there are a few
places where we seem to be merging a bottom up view (allow applicants to propose
names) with a top down view (select names that have most demand or add the most
value to the DNS).
I should note a
conflict of interest in that my employer, Melbourne IT (a domain name
registrar), owns 10% of Neulevel that operates the .biz
registry.
My response is from
the point of view of a registrar, and I believe is consistent with the registrar
position paper.
Regards,
Bruce
Tonkin
Melbourne
IT
Registrars rep on
the GNSO council
gTLDS committee suggested changes.doc |