Dear all,
As it may have relevance to members of the BC, I thought I
should make you aware of a blog post I made on CircleID regarding the long
delays and long timelines that lay ahead vis-à-vis new gTLDs [ http://www.circleid.com/posts/and_then_there_was_the_issue_of_time/
].
The October 12th BC meeting in Washington,
particularly the session on “brands as gTLDs” that Fred Felman
chaired, was extremely valuable in fleshing out the complexities around brands
as TLDs and got me to thinking more about how ICANN best handle this important
aspect. I recommend that members go back and read the transcripts or listen to
the MP3 to learn more if they didn’t participate remotely. It got me to
thinking more about what still needs to be done and how we should address
that. In my post, I suggest putting all brands on a separate path towards gTLDs
until such time as the issues around SRSU and the like have been properly
considered and appropriate recommendations are put in place. I believe that
this would address a number of concerns from different groups and build
institutional confidence in ICANN.
Kind regards,
RA
Ronald N. Andruff
President
RNA Partners, Inc.
220
+ 1 212 481 2820 ext. 11