RE: [wg-c-1] WORK: Question #1 New GTLDs

[Ivan Pope <ivan@netnames.com>]

David Maher wrote:
> 	In addition we have some entrepreneurs with dollar 
> signs dancing in their
> heads who see the opportunity to grab popular letter 
> combinations and make
> fortunes from them. I don't see this as the best way to run 
> the Internet.

Surely this boils down to this:

Either
gTLDs can be wholly owned and controlled by parties outside ICANN
or
gTLDs can be managed and controlled only under license from ICANN

Maybe we can discuss whether the WG wants to come out for one approach or
the other?

Ivan