[wg-c] straw poll -- reminder

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

	I'm away from home, and as a result not as well-organized as I'd
like to be.  Near as I can tell, the following 24 WG members who have
posted to the list at least once[*] haven't submitted votes in the straw
poll:  Dennis Jennings, Kilnam Chon, Daiva Tamulioniene, Eva Frolich,
Amadeu Abril i Abril, Ivan Pope, Werner Staub, Ross Wm. Rader, Javier
Sola, John Lewis, Tolga Yurderi, Petter Rindforth, Martin B. Schwimmer,
Craig Simon, Jeffrey Neuman, Onno Hovers, Keith Gymer, Jim Glanz, Rob
Hall, Raul Echeberria, Caroline Chicoine, Robert F. Connelly, Anthony
Lupo, Kathryn Kleiman.

	To the extent that any of you *have* voted (but I lost those files
en route to my mother-in-law's house), please let me know.  For those of
you who haven't voted, I urge you please to do so now.  You need only send
in an answer to Question One at this point.  For your convenience, I'm
reprinting Question One below.


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

Option 1:  Without regard to whether it would be desirable to have many
gTLDs in the long term, ICANN should proceed now by adding only a few, and
then pausing for evaluation.  Only after assessing the results should it
initiate any action to add more.

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.


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[*] I figure that anybody who hasn't posted to the list even once has
probably decided that his or her energies are best expended elsewhere.

Jon


Jonathan Weinberg
co-chair, WG-C
weinberg@msen.com