I think ICANN should look at the business plan and any other related document in the only goal to ensure that the company will be able to run the registry successfully. I think it is the role of ICANN to ensure that the operations are sound initially. I have seen it happened with a ccTLD. I would also add, and I'm not sure it happens, that ICANN should request status report yearly to registries: BS & PL, Domain registration and deregistration statistics.. These reports would be public. ICANN will always have to restrict the scope of which gTLDs are potentially available, but the policy should be done before hand than on a case by case basis. ex. No offensive language instead of forbidding dot fuck when it happens. On 1/31/07, At Large Advisory Committee <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
[Something seems wrong with the mailing lists.]
Vittorio,
my 2 (euro)cents:
I quite agree with Wendy. ICANN is in the business of making the DNS system stable and secure. It has no role in monitoring the content, nor what is being done with a TLD, as long as the stability and security of the DNS system can be guaranteed. ICANN should not evaluate a business plan either. The only guarantee it could ask is that the TLD is being run for the whole duration of the contract.
Whether the porn industry supports triple x or not is irrelevant, as long as ICM registry can securely run the TLD. Remember, Jon Postel wanted to create hundreds on new TLDs back in 1998. This is the plan we should encourage ICANN to follow.
Patrick
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