From: owner-wg-c-digest@dnso.org (WG-C-DIGEST) To: wg-c-digest@dnso.org Subject: WG-C-DIGEST V1 #74 Reply-To: Sender: owner-wg-c-digest@dnso.org Errors-To: owner-wg-c-digest@dnso.org Precedence: bulk WG-C-DIGEST Sunday, April 9 2000 Volume 01 : Number 074 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:10:21 -0400 From: Jonathan Weinberg Subject: [wg-c] forwarded for Manon Ress >Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:33:02 -0400 >From: Manon Anne Ress >To: Mike Palage , > Jonathan Weinberg >CC: "nc-tlds@venice.essential.org" >Subject: Comments on new TLDs and .humanrights > >Dear Mr. Palage and Professor Weinberg, > >Would you please distribute this letter on the lists for Working >Groups >B and C? Thank you. > > Manon Ress > ><--letter to ICANN working groups on new TLDs--> > > >Dear members of ICANN's working groups B and C, > >We are writing to address issues concerning (1) the creation of >restricted use TLDs and (2) the use of company, product, government or >organization names in connection with TLDs. > >First, the procedures adopted by ICANN for new TLDS should permit the >creation of both unrestricted and restricted TLDs, to address >different needs. A TLD for human rights organizations, such as >.humanrights, should be controlled by the human rights community, and >not be created as an unrestricted TLD. > >Second, the ICANN rules regarding the use of names of companies, >products, governments or non-government organizations should not >prevent the registration of domains such as nike.humanrights, by human >rights organizations, for use in organizing communities or providing >information about human rights records. > >We are working on the creation of a coalition to apply to ICANN to be >the registry for .humanrights. The coalition will include >representatives from national and international human rights >organizations, and will provide a gateway or portal to information >about human rights for specific companies, products, governments or >non-government organizations. Persons who are >interested in this initiative may contact Manon Ress at >1.202.234.0040, mress@essential.org. > >Sincerely, > >Manon Ress >Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:02:11 -0700 From: "Christopher Ambler" Subject: [wg-c] Another gTLD starts up With the news that .TV is now open for business, we have yet another ccTLD mutating into a gTLD. It has taken almost FIVE YEARS NOW to get no further than we were when we started. I call upon ICANN to open the root to new TLDs by their July meeting. Companies, such as those pioneers were working with Jon Postel as far back as 1995 on the original newdom list, have been economically harmed by the delays. Until ICANN, an argument could be made that there was no clear authority to add new TLDs. At this time, however, the authority path seems to go from ICANN to the DoC. Stop the delays, and stop the perpetuation of the artificial scarcity (and, some might argue, the perpetuation of NSI's monopoly on gTLDs and the economic harm that continues to tax pioneer and prospective registries). Enough is enough. - -- Christopher Ambler chris@the.web ------------------------------ End of WG-C-DIGEST V1 #74 *************************