Re: [wg-c] voting on TLDs

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> Please note that the White Paper places stability of the Internet above
> all other concerns.

I have yet to see any technical or policy basis to have any belief
whatsoever that additional TLDs, even thousands of them, will have any
impact on the "stability of the Internet".

I would suggest that that further delay in adding new TLDs will only
increase the pressure for people to take action outside the ICANN context,
as is already occuring in China and elsewhere, to create a distinct DNS
name space that cares naught for anything that the DNSO or ICANN may say
or do.

And if one believes the IAB's statement on competitive roots, then one
ought to consider that the refusal to quickly add new TLDs is the true
cause of concern for stability.

		--karl--