I share John L's concerns and agree that the official posture should be to stop the process until the elements hereunder are addressed. Carlton On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM, John L <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Thank you for your effort in producing this document.
Yes, it's a good start.
While the Statement makes clear that which users find to be objectionable,
I am having trouble finding the clear advice that we seek to offer to the Board.
My advice would be to stop the new gTLD process until:
a) the promised Economic Study is released and evaluated
b) ICANN develops and implements compliance processes to manage *all* of the requirements in existing registry and registrar contracts, and develops compliance processes for any new or different requirements in new contracts.
2. Are we asking that we proceed with the rollout of IDN gTLDs and IDN
ccTLDs while we put generic TLDs on the back burner?
I realize that there is a lot of pressure from the non-anglophone world for IDN TLDs, but would rather that they delay IDN TLDs until at least the compliance is in place. I suspect the economic study is more relevant to IDN TLDs than to ASCII ones since there's likely too be close synonyms among names in different languages.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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