Re: [wg-c] straw poll -- reminder

["Martin B. Schwimmer" <martys@interport.net>]

Option 1






At 01:24 PM 8/18/99 +0900, you wrote:
>Option 1.
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>chon
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>On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:48:54PM -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>> 	I'm away from home, and as a result not as well-organized as I'd
>> like to be.  Near as I can tell, the following 24 WG members who have
>> posted to the list at least once[*] haven't submitted votes in the straw
>> poll:  Dennis Jennings, Kilnam Chon, Daiva Tamulioniene, Eva Frolich,
>> Amadeu Abril i Abril, Ivan Pope, Werner Staub, Ross Wm. Rader, Javier
>> Sola, John Lewis, Tolga Yurderi, Petter Rindforth, Martin B. Schwimmer,
>> Craig Simon, Jeffrey Neuman, Onno Hovers, Keith Gymer, Jim Glanz, Rob
>> Hall, Raul Echeberria, Caroline Chicoine, Robert F. Connelly, Anthony
>> Lupo, Kathryn Kleiman.
>> 
>> 	To the extent that any of you *have* voted (but I lost those files
>> en route to my mother-in-law's house), please let me know.  For those of
>> you who haven't voted, I urge you please to do so now.  You need only send
>> in an answer to Question One at this point.  For your convenience, I'm
>> reprinting Question One below.
>> 
>> 
>> QUESTION ONE: HOW MANY NEW gTLDS, AND HOW FAST?
>> 
>> Option 1:  Without regard to whether it would be desirable to have many
>> gTLDs in the long term, ICANN should proceed now by adding only a few, and
>> then pausing for evaluation.  Only after assessing the results should it
>> initiate any action to add more.
>> 
>> Option 2:  ICANN should implement a plan contemplating the authorization
>> of many new gTLDs over the next few years.  (Example: ICANN might plan to
>> authorize up to 10-12 new registries, each operating 1-3 new gTLDs, each
>> year, for a period of five years; each year's authorizations would be
>> staggered over the course of the year.)  This option would place the
>> burden on opponents, if evidence comes in demonstrating that additional
>> new gTLDs are a bad idea or that the rollout is too fast, to bring that
>> evidence to ICANN's attention and call for a halt or a slowdown.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> [*] I figure that anybody who hasn't posted to the list even once has
>> probably decided that his or her energies are best expended elsewhere.
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>> 
>> Jonathan Weinberg
>> co-chair, WG-C
>> weinberg@msen.com
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