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Re: [wg-c] CPT/EI letter on TLDs
3/5/00 su 4:41 pm mst
Welcome Jamie,
i want to thank you for sharing your letter to Dyson with the wg-c.
i am certain your intent in the letter is perfectly sincere and of course
extremely correct. However, due to my cynical opinion of icann, i found
your letter to Dyson to be wonderfully droll.
please be sure to post her response, if any.
katie.
Kathryn Vestal, Esq.
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At 12:06 PM 3/5/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello, this is my first post to wg-c. I work with various non-profit
>organizations that would like to apply for new TLDs. This is a letter I
>wrote to Esther Dyson about this. It is my understanding that WG-B and
>WG-C are working on this issue. Jamie Love
>
>http://www.cptech.org/ecom/icann/tlds-march1-2000.html
>
> John Richard
> Essential Information
> P.O. Box 19405
> Washington, DC 20036
> http://www.essential.org
>
> James Love
> Consumer Project on Technology
> P.O. Box 19367
> Washington, DC 20036
> http://www.essential.org
>
>March 1, 2000
>
>Esther Dyson
>Chair
>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
>Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
>
>Dear Esther:
>
>This letter is to propose that Essential Information be permitted
>to establish a registry for new top level domains (TLDs). It is
>our intention to create several TLDs that would facilitate free
>speech and criticism, and enable consumers, workers and others to
>organize. Each of these TLDs will be operated under its own
>management charter. The particular TLDs that we propose
>include:
>
> .union
> .customers
> .complaints
> .sucks
> .ecology
> .isnotgreen
> .isnotfair
> .shareholder
> .taxpayer
> .unite
>
>Our plans for each domain are as follows:
>
> .union
>
>The .union TLD will be a "union label" for cyberspace. EI is
>working with the international labor union community to develop a
>management system for .union. Use of the domain would be
>restricted to bona fide labor unions. Examples of use of this
>TLD would include:
>
> nike.union
> exxon.union
> microsoft.union
>
>as well as other uses, such as dcprinters.union, for links to
>union printers in Washington, DC. EI will be holding meetings
>with members of the labor community to discuss the policies for
>the management of this domain. It is our goal to use the .union
>domain to strengthen union organizing efforts, and to make it
>easier for workers at a firm to communicate with unions that
>represent workers at the firm, or who are seeking to organize
>workers at the firm, and for unions in different countries to
>coordinate efforts with each other.
>
> .customers
>
>EI will create a self governance management organization for
>.customers. This domain will be used to create democratically
>managed membership organizations of the customers of particular
>companies. The customer organizations would be able to address
>any number of consumer problems. For example, ford.customers
>might organize to address safety, service or warranty issues on
>Ford automobiles. Safeway.customers might organize in favor of
>labeling of genetically modified foods. Bellatlantic.customers
>might address Bell Altantic service and pricing issues in
>regulatory proceedings. Bankofamerica.customers could address
>ATM charges and other bank fees.
>
>The .customers domain will be a cyberspace version of the
>"Citizens Utilities Boards" that were set up in several US states
>in the 1970s, funded by voluntary contributions from customers of
>public utilities.
>
> .complaints
>
>EI is studying different models for the use of .complaints, to
>give consumers specific information about mechanisms to address
>product or company specific complaints, and to permit customers
>to share information about company practices with each other.
>
> .sucks
>
>This TLD will be used to facilitate criticism of a firm or
>organization, such as aol.sucks, wipo.sucks, or even
>greenpeace.sucks. We would not permit the organization that
>owned an associated domain to also own .sucks, so it would expand
>the name space in an important way. The domain would also be
>available for other uses, such as work.sucks, life.sucks or
>television.sucks.
>
>Our plan is to create an independent non-profit free speech
>foundation that will be funded by fees from the .sucks
>registration. The Dot Sucks Foundation (http://dot.sucks) will
>fund Internet related free speech fights.
>
>We recognize the .sucks TLD will be offensive to some persons,
>but we do not think that this should exclude .sucks from being
>approved by ICANN. We believe the .sucks domain will be popular
>in the marketplace, and also generate important funding for the
>free speech rights of individuals and small organizations.
>
> .ecology
> .isnotgreen
>
>These two TLDs will be managed by environmental groups, to create
>forums to discuss and criticize the environmental policies of
>businesses, governments and other organizations.
>
> .isnotfair
>
>This TLD would be used by civil rights groups to discuss issues
>of discrimination or workers rights. We will be holding
>discussions with a variety of civil rights organizations to
>determine the management structure for the TLD. It is our
>intention to create a space where the public can quickly review a
>company's record on employment practices. For example,
>Texaco.isnotfair or coke.isnotfair might have links to
>information about discrimination suits involving these companies,
>or to organizations working on various discrimination or fairness
>issues.
>
> .shareholder
>
>This TLD will be used by church groups who organize shareholder
>suits on issues of conscience.
>
> .taxpayers
>
>The .taxpayer TLD would be given to democratically elected
>taxpayer organizations that would monitor budgets and management
>practices of governments. Examples of this TLD would include
>Arlington.VA.Taxpayers, Anchorage.AK.Taxpayers,
>London.UK.Taxpayers, Sidney.AU.Taxpayers.
>
> .unite
>
>EI is evaluating different models for the use of .unite.
>
>These are serious proposals to use the power of a TLD to enable
>citizens to improve civil society. We believe the creation of
>domains like .union, .customers, .isnotgreen, and .isnotfair will
>create powerful mechanisms to share information and organize.
>
>We would like to meet with the ICANN staff to discuss these
>proposals further.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>John Richard James Love
>Director Director
>Essential Information Consumer Project on Technology
>
>
>
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>James Love, Director | http://www.cptech.org
>Consumer Project on Technology | mailto:love@cptech.org
>P.O. Box 19367 | voice: 1.202.387.8030
>Washington, DC 20036 | fax: 1.202.234.5176
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