RE: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 22-Mar-2000 James Love wrote:
> 
> There are a large number of proposals for TLDs.  If ICANN begins with
> the WG-C proposal of 6 to 10 testbed TLDs, it will be pretty hard to
> decide which TLDs go first.
> 
> Assuming that the testbed is simply the first step in a real expansion
> of the TLD space (as were the first testbed registrars for .com, .net
> and .org), it may not be extremely important which ones go first, but it
> will probably be important enough to be controversial.
> 
> I propose the decision making be decentralized.  I would recommend 3 be
> selected by the business/registrar constituencies, 3 by the
> non-commercial domain holders, and 3 selected by the ICANN at large
> members, in an online vote.  That's 9, and the 10th could be selected in
> some other way.  Perhaps a lottery by those with "pioneer" proposals, or
> something else.  This would provide a simple way to reduce the power
> that any one group would have, and it would probably also lead to some
> diversity in the types of management structures considered in the first
> round.

This whole thing is based on the supposition that the top level domains should
be selected independent of the registry applications.  I think that an
application process should be created, the applications include the TLD
proposal, and each application is considered on its merits. This is really the
only fair way of doing it.

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