And your views are tainted by a desire of having ICANN to fail, so you too have a conflict of Interest, but I think it makes a good equilibrium on the list. on another note: we do not live in a perfect world. I think comes a time, when someone has to say, enough consultations and let's do it. The economist likes to publish rating of countries based on how easy it is to do business in these countries because how slow is the administration. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 2:36:44 AM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected Subject: [At-Large] my submissions to new gTLD statement Re: "By asking to suspend the process, we risk killing innovation and we play the game of the incumbents." Patrick, as you have been spearheading the launch of the .sport TLD, your views are necessarily tainted with a conflict of interest. Yes, money is risked when processes are delayed. Stuart Lawley's .xxx initiative risked millions, and many of us recall the folks at SITA going up to the microphone session after session, year after year while burning up money. But we are not in the business of protecting potential TLD operators; we are in the business of acting in the public interest. The new gTLD process must be stopped dead in its tracks and must be significantly re-worked to address the issues raised (and yes, this could take years, many years). While there is a risk to potential new registry operators, the risk to the public of the consequences of a poorly designed and implemented launch cycle are substantially worse.