[wg-c] Another gTLD starts up

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

With the news that .TV is now open for business, we have yet another
ccTLD mutating into a gTLD.

It has taken almost FIVE YEARS NOW to get no further than we were
when we started.

I call upon ICANN to open the root to new TLDs by their July meeting.
Companies, such as those pioneers were working with Jon Postel as
far back as 1995 on the original newdom list, have been economically
harmed by the delays. Until ICANN, an argument could be made that
there was no clear authority to add new TLDs. At this time, however,
the authority path seems to go from ICANN to the DoC.

Stop the delays, and stop the perpetuation of the artificial scarcity (and,
some might argue, the perpetuation of NSI's monopoly on gTLDs and
the economic harm that continues to tax pioneer and prospective
registries).

Enough is enough.

--
Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web