Re: [ga] New TLD White Paper released

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

Karl and all former DNSO GA members,

  Pardon me here a bit Karl, but one of the main reasons ICANN
came into being was the expansion of the name space, ergo new
TLD's introduced.  I am in agreement with you except that existing
TLD's outside of the Legacy Root structure, essentially have no
rights in that root structure even if they pre-existed new TLD's
that ICANN may decide to create.

  This being said, the auction process that this paper is suggesting
as I stated earlier, obviously has no better and likely less of a chance
of solving HOW and WHAT new TLD's should be added or otherwise
created.

  If an inclusive root structure was acceptable to the ICANN BOD
and staff, the free market system as you also suggest below in your
remarks, is indeed the best and I believe the only way in which this
pesky problem or issue can be adequately solved...

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, John Palmer wrote:
>
> > Please explain why that is fair to auction off what is potentially the
> > fruits of someone else's labor.
>
> > Some of us have been operating registries and have been supporting TLDs in
> > for almost 9 years now. Why can't we have the property that we have worked
> > hard to develop?
>
> If a name in a competing root has established itself as a actual
> designator of actual goods or services through use and/or registration,
> then you've possibly got cognizable legal rights.
>
> But you've got to be willing to defend those rights.  Otherwise you are
> simply whining.
>
> So if you believe that you have laboured to build something, then the
> forum to vindicate those rights is the courthouse.
>
> The best that ICANN can do is to be blind to rights that may or may not
> exist in names, leaving the resolution of disputes to forums better suited
> to that kind of thing.
>
> That doesn't mean that I agree with Milton's paper - I believe that ICANN
> ought to be cranking new TLDs out at a rate of rather more than one per
> day, and that the choice of what TLD ought to be totally blind to the
> actual character string being sought (other than to ensure that it doesn't
> clash with an already allocated string.)  But Milton's approach is
> certainly a far sight better than the status quo of do-nothingness.
>
>                 --karl--
>
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