[council] WG-C Report

[Javier SOLA <jsola@aui.es>]

I would like to congratulate John Weinberg for being able to bring 
conclusions out of WG-C. He has done a magnificent work polling the WG and 
focusing on the few points in which agreement could be found.

Now it is up to the NC to figure out what to do with this report and how to 
carry on with its work.

I believe that WG-C, as it stands, has served to bring out minimal 
consensus, but it is not an operational WG to figure out how the new gTLD 
strings should be chosen and how registries should be run. I believe that 
the only way to do this work is to have the NC itself (or a subset) figure 
out the mechanism to choose the strings and to select and operate the 
registries.

The IP community, through their constituency and through the business 
constituency, has been the strongest force to oppose the creation of new 
gTLDs in the present context. I hope that they will now accept the vote of 
the majority and collaborate activelly in the creation of these gTLDs.

WG-C has become the central point for discussion of gTLD matters. 
Independently of the structure that the NC creates for advancing on gTLD 
matters, it could be a good idea to maintain WG-C as a discussion group or 
an special interest group. In this case, I would like to ask the NC to 
select a new liason with this WG, as I can no longer fulfill this role, not 
being a member of the NC.

Javier