Re: [ga] 3:219 INFO...beyond the Proof-of-Concept...

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Thanks for these links, Jim.

I note from  the second link, the following objective to be fulfilled during
the financial year 2003-4:

"Complete any remaining work on the evaluation of the November 2000 round of
new gTLDs; complete any remaining work on approving and launching a limited
round of new sponsored gTLDs; and develop a framework for considering any
possible further expansion in the top-level gTLD namespace."

Due order and respect for process (and the Proof of Concept principle)
should dictate that "approving and launching a limited round of new
sponsored gTLDs" should not take place until the evaluation of the sponsored
and unsponsored new TLDs of 2000 has been completed.

May I please ask: who precisely (individually or group) is overseeing the
Evaluation Process for evaluating the New gTLDs?

What stage has this Evaluation Process reached?

Where are the Registry Evaluation Reports, required by Appendix U of their
Agreements with ICANN, and due over a year ago?

If they have been submitted, in conformity with the Agreement, why has ICANN
*still* not published them, so that all parties and constituencies can study
them, and engage in informed participation over the much-needed evaluation
of these new TLDs?

I first asked why these had not been published, back in late Spring of 2002.
I asked again in Summer 2002, when Stuart Lynn said that ICANN staff had
"not had time" to publish them on the website. I asked again in Autumn 2002.
I made a further request in Winter 2002. I asked again early in 2003. It is
now May 2003, and I am asking again.

Given that these Registry Evaluation Reports were specifically defined as
open, and given that these files could be uploaded onto a website in a few
minutes, I find Stuart Lynn's explanation unacceptable, and I request that
this key data is made available for study.

There is much pressure for the introduction of further new gTLDs, and
interest from all over the world. At the same time, there were clear
problems in the way the year 2000 TLDs were rolled out, and important
lessons to be learned, in the interests of the consumer and stakeholders
worldwide.

It is imperative that we now get a clearly-defined plan of action,
timescale, and appointees to oversee this process, to publish all data, to
engage all parties.

Otherwise, ICANN leaves us with the impression that it is "making it up as
it goes along" and marginalising its own much-vaunted Proof of Concept.

yrs

Richard Henderson

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: [ga] 3:219 INFO...beyond the Proof-of-Concept...


> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
> 3:219     INFO
> ====
> http://www.icann.org/financials/proposed-budget-17may03.htm
>       .info  550,000 1,029,000 87%
>


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