[ga] Re: ICANN Staff Changes ? - New TLS - Attn. Stuart Lynn/Steve Crocker

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jim, Steve, Stuart and all,

  It is interesting that Steve says he is not a part of the ICANN staff.  That
certainly is news to me...  Thank you Steve for this clarification.

  What is even more interesting sense along time ago now it was
clearly determined from other studies that there is no technical
limit to the number of new TLD's that can be added that before
the study/committee that Steve Crocker was "Ask" to participate
on along with a number of others.
See: http://www.icann.org/committees/ntepptf/new-gtld-action-plan-18oct02.htm#I-Recommendations
Where the following was pre-stated by Stuart Lynn:
"I therefore recommend that the Board instruct the staff to solicit proposals
for up to three more sponsored TLDs as an extension of the "Proof of Concept"
and following similar, if somewhat streamlined, criteria and ground rules,
subject to funding a rapid study, based on sampling techniques as appropriate, to
assess to what extent, if any, the new sponsored TLDs have admitted
registrants that lie outside of their charters."

  This would seem to rather significant as well as somewhat premature
to pre-limit the number of new or additional TLD's to three...???
How could and honest study for adding new TLD's pre-limit the
number of those new TLD's?



Jim Fleming wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Crocker" <steve@stevecrocker.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 8:26 AM
> Subject: RE: ICANN Staff Changes ?
>
> > I am not part of the ICANN staff.  I chair the Security and Stability
> > Advisory Committee om a volunteer basis.
> >
>
> If I recall, you claim to do technical work. Is there any recent evidence of that ?
>
> When will the number of TLDs in the new Taxonomy Economy be disclosed by the IETF ?
> http://www.icann.org/committees/ntepptf/new-gtld-action-plan-18oct02.htm
> If the answer is already known to be 32, then people may want to engineer to that.
> If the TLD namespace will be capped at 256, that may result in different sizing.
> Registrars just likely want to know if the number of TLDs will fit on their splash pages.
> It looks like 32 is about the limit, if you look at a modern multi-TLD provider's Taxonomy...
> http://www.New.Net
>
> If only 32 are allowed, then .COM may not be included...
> http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html
> 10514 INC
> 9264 ONLINE
> 7288 NET
> 6472 USA
> 4481 GROUP
> 4101 WEB
> 3891 TECH
> 3077 UK
> ---
> 2762 DESIGN
> 2570 SYSTEMS
> 2542 IT
> 2415 US
> 2378 SOLUTIONS
> 2322 LINE
> 2209 LAW
> 2171 CONSULTING
> ---
> 2161 INFO
> 2033 SERVICES
> 2027 WORLD
> 1966 SOFTWARE
> 1940 INTERNATIONAL
> 1932 INTL
> 1880 CORP
> 1874 CO
> ---
> 1803 SHOP
> 1795 FRANCE
> 1720 HOMES
> 1671 S
> 1638 ART
> 1603 TV
> 1587 TRAVEL
> 1555 MAIL
> --------------- 32 above --------
> 1534 EUROPE
> 1529 DIRECT
> 1491 MEDIA
> 1487 MALL
> 1431 E
> 1419 LTD
> 1417 ASSOCIATES
> 1411 1
> 1361 SERVICE
> 1342 2000
> 1339 Z
> 1301 NETWORK
> 1289 NEWS
> 1269 INT
> 1232 SA
> 1218 ENTERPRISES
> 1217 CENTER
> 1216 CLUB
> 1202 MARKETING
> 1177 REALTY
> 1161 MUSIC
> 1149 STORE
> 1144 INSURANCE
> 1108 I
> 1101 COM
> ========
>
> When will the number of TLDs in the new Taxonomy Economy be disclosed by the IETF ?

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