Re: [wg-c] WG questions

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

>I'd like to suggest that we lean towards the second approach.  Requiring
>every new TLD and its affiliated registry to go through a WG, the Names
>Council and the ICANN Board, I suspect, will be a slow process that, in the
>highly politicized and contentious gTLD context, will maximize
>opportunities for lobbying, political considerations, obstruction, and
>hidden bias and arbitrariness.  If we want it to be easy to accredit new
>gTLD/registries, it seems to me, ICANN should set out the governing rules
>at the outset so that its actual approval process can be largely mechanical
>rather than discretionary.  Am I wrong about this?

I couldn't agree more, nor could I have said it better myself.

Christopher