[wg-c] straw vote

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

My vote :

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.

Comment: "the next few years"  may not properly take the clock-speed of
internet time into account. A lot can and will happen in the next few
years, that will make much of the current worry about new ICANN approved
gTLD's irrelevant.

Five years of operation may be just enough to provide a registry , whether
for profit-or  not-for-profit, with a sound business plan.

Whether an ICANN controlled rollout is too fast or not, is not likely to be
determined by ICANN or it's SO's, but more likely by market pressures, that
will avail of new technology, new methodologies and new protocols to roll
out whatever  the market wants.

If this leads to conflict with TM interests, such conflict will still have
to be resolved in traditional ways, unless parties can mutually agree to
avail themselves of a less costly venue that ICANN, WIPO or a treaty
-organization can provide.






--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , bootstrap  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org