Summary:
1. There is so much traffic here that one risks collision with one of
the parked cars.
2. Mr Rutkowski's masterly misstatement of the ambit of the wg-c mission
for renegotiation of .int leads to the 'beautiful' confusion beloved of
many good businessmen..
3. Naive take on the wg-c debate:
1.Should there be new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)? A: YES,
agreed
If yes:
How many? A: initial 6-10 agreed
Which? A: (beyond competence of wg-c to resolve both procedure
and substantive candidates, risks of conflict of interest)
At which speed should they be deployed and in which order? A:
reasonably i.e. over next few years, order TBD
What should be the mechanism for developing new gTLDs after all these
are deployed. A: mixed, no consensus view
Should each new gTLD have a specific charter? A: not necessarily
2.What should the registration and data maintenance process and regulation be?. A: under discussion
3.How should the new gTLDs be managed? A: under discussion
What should the registry(ies) be like? A: under discussion
Is it mandatory to have a new registry(ies)? A: under discussion
Why?
Does the structure proposed comply with worldwide concepts of anti-trust
law? A: there is no worldwide concept of anti-trust law, quite
the reverse. Question should be phrased as to whether compatible with worldwide
concepts of sovereignty.
What information should be made public by the registry(ies) and how?
A: under discussion
Obligations of the registry(ies). A: under discussion
(please note this does not represent my personal opinions)
MM