Re: [wg-c] straw poll -- reminder

[Javier <javier@aui.es>]

Option 1

At 22:48 17/08/99 -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>	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
>