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

[Javier <javier@aui.es>]

This is the subject of Drafting committee 3. Please take the discussion to
that drafting committee, as it includes the people who wish to discuss this
subject.

Javier



At 10:54 14/07/99 +0100, Ivan Pope wrote:
>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
>