[ga] Where is the New TLD Evaluation Process?
Title: Help When does this evaluation process officially get launched? Who is going to
be appointed to carry out the official evaluation? When will it finally report
back? Where are the mandatory and detailed reports on the process, which the
various registries are supposed to have submitted?
To date, we've had a committee whose remit was to work out what should be
the remit of the actual people who will finally be asked to carry out the New
TLD Evaluation Process.
In other words, we've had talks about talks.
Given that the whole affair of the New TLDs was supposed to be a "Proof of
Concept" for any more TLDs in the future, and given the interest all round the
world in this matter of further TLDs, it does seem an extraordinarily long time
and still no actual review in process.
Stuart Lynn said he would announce the details and personnel for the
Evaluation Process at Shanghai. Has he done so?
And I repeat my question from several months ago: where are Afilias's
Evaluation reports, which according to their ICANN agreement should have been
available to the public months ago?
Why haven't they been published?
How can the various constituencies of ICANN make serious judgements and
participate responsibly in the evaluation of the new TLDs, if such vital and
central data is withheld (or has it even been submitted)?
Many of the disasters of the .info and .biz roll-outs were defended by the
argument, "Oh it's all a Proof of Concept, therefore we will learn from the
problems we've had!"
How seriously is ICANN really pursuing this agenda? Or does it just want to
slow everything up to protect the interests of various interest groups?
ICANN: you told us the NewTLDs would be rolled out as a Proof of Concept.
You said there would be an Evaluation Process.
Where IS the New TLD evaluation process?
Richard Henderson
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