Re: [wg-c] Straw Vote

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

MY STRAW VOTES:

QUESTION ONE: HOW MANY NEW gTLDS, AND HOW FAST?

Option 2: ICANN should implement a plan contemplating the authorization of
many new gTLDs over the next few years.  (Example: ICANN might plan to
authorize up to 10-12 new registries, each operating 1-3 new gTLDs, each
year, for a period of five years; each year's authorizations would be
staggered over the course of the year.)  This option would place the burden
on opponents, if evidence comes in demonstrating that additional new gTLDs
are a bad idea or that the rollout is too fast, to bring that evidence to
ICANN's attention and call for a halt or a slowdown.


QUESTION TWO: HOW TO SELECT TLD STRINGS AND REGISTRIES?

Option 4:  ICANN should start by adding the existing "alternate" gTLDs,
and then find a neutral method to continue adding new TLD strings, focusing
on names that have already been proposed.

and then...

Option 5:  ICANN should pick a set of registries, according to
predetermined, objective criteria.  The registries would then choose their
own gTLD strings, subject to some process or rules under which ICANN could
resolve conflicts, and could deem certain gTLD strings out of bounds.  This
approach would incorporate a mechanism under which existing registries
could apply for authorization to add additional gTLD strings.  The
registry-selection criteria might reserve a certain number of slots for
registries based in each region of the world.


QUESTION THREE: SHOULD REGISTRIES BE FOR-PROFIT OR NON-PROFIT?  HOW MANY
gTLDS SHOULD THEY RUN?

Option 4:  Some registries would be run on a not-for-profit, cost-recovery
basis.  Other registries, however, could be run on a for-profit basis.  Any
registry could operate any number of gTLDs.

"any number" within reason. I like th 1-3 to start that you proposed,
above.

QUESTION FOUR:  SHOULD ICANN REQUIRE SHARING?

Option 3:  ICANN would not require registries to support competitive
registrars in any of their gTLDs, although registries might independently
choose to do so.