RE: Reaching Decisions and "Re: [wg-c] Well, maybe this won't work"

["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

At 15:23 06-09-1999 -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>Robert,
>I saw it, but I didn't understand it. I don't know the reference to an
>"Option 3". Could you please clarify?

Dear Reoland:

I thought there was an Option 3 to the original "Straw vote" posting.  I 
thought it was for immediate delegation of many gTLDs.  Perhaps I was 
confused by the other issues.  There were about three major issues in the 
original posting.

You're right, there were only two options to issue #1.  The original 
posting was on 12 August at 16:52 (-0400).  There were four questions with 
up to five options each:

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.


>Yes, in principle, I agree to a VoteBot and have been saying so for a
>longish while. Joop Teernstra has even volunteered the IDNO VoteBot to
>this issue, in the DNSO/GA. As a member of the IDNO steering committee
>and with the caveate  that the rest of the IDNO steering committee have
>final approval, I repeat Joop's offer of the use of the IDNO VoteBot.

I feel fairly confident that Dan Busarow would be willing to host the 
Votebot.  I think it was his original creation.  He does a great job with it.

Personal regards, BobC



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