Re: [wg-c] voting on TLDs

[Paul Garrin <pg@name-space.com>]

> 
> In the event that only a limited number of TLDs will be authorized by
> ICANN, it would be possible to have at least some be allocated on the
> basis of a vote by the ICANN at large membership.
> 
> This would be real "bottom up" governance, and it would also connect the
> the "Internet community."   
> 
> Youn might call this "by popular demand" to something, as a category,
> not entirely like the way newsgroups are created.
> 
> This would also likely expand the ICANN membership in interesting ways.
> 
>   Jamie Love
>   http://www.cptech.org
>   love@cptech.org
> 


I support the concept of popular vote for TLDs, and to some
degree Name.Space has been doing this for some time now. Most
of the more than 500 new TLDs in operation by Name.Space have
been suggested through public survey.  An ongoing ranking of
TLDs by vote and "population" is available at
http://vote.global-namespace.net

To bring this type of effort into a widely known public forum
through ICANN will surely reinforce the intended "bottom up"
qualities so often described as the intent of the ICANN process.


Paul Garrin
pg@name-space.com
http://name-space.com