Got it. Thanks Bruce.<br>
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<br>
Tim<br>
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> -------- Original Message --------<br>
> Subject: RE: [council] Definitions and measures of competition ,<br>
> consumer trust, and consumer choice<br>
> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au><br>
> Date: Thu, January 13, 2011 2:57 pm<br>
> To: "Tim Ruiz" <tim@godaddy.com><br>
> Cc: <council@gnso.icann.org><br>
> <br>
> Hello Tim,<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> >>  Could you provide the source for the conclusions you make below, or are<br>
> they your own? <br>
> <br>
> Purely my own quick thoughts - none of them need to be accepted in any way :-)<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> >>  Regarding the<br>
> latter, at some point .com may be less 20% but if a large portion of<br>
> other gTLD registrations are only defensive and mostly point to .coms,<br>
> is that a good sign of competition?<br>
> <br>
> No.<br>
> <br>
> >>  Finally, I'm not sure it is a good idea for the regulator's own criteria<br>
> and evaluation to be the only measure of the effectiveness of its<br>
> regulations. So we should consider third party involvement as well.<br>
> <br>
> Agreed.   But given we as a community are initiating a project - lets at least have some shared measures of our own.  Any independent review may wish to look at other aspects - but we at least need our own measures to manage our own projects.<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> Bruce<br>
<br>