Re: [wg-c] S/K principles

["Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@aim.be>]

Jon,
Thanks for your work on this. I support your re-draft of the principles and
the further clarification to principle 1.

So the principles as revised by WG C now read:

Proposed rough consensus item #1:

The initial rollout should include a range of top level domains, from open
TLDs to restricted TLDs with more limited scope.

Proposed rough consensus item #2:

Criteria for assessing a gTLD application, subject to current technical
constraints and evolving technical opportunities, should be based on all of
the following principles :


1. Meaning: An application for a TLD should explain the significance of
the proposed TLD string, and how the applicant contemplates that the new
TLD will be perceived by the relevant population of net users.  The
application may contemplate that the proposed TLD string will have its
primary semantic meaning in a language other than English.

2. Enforcement: An application for a TLD should explain the mechanism for
charter enforcement where relevant and desired.

3. Differentiation: The selection of a TLD string should not confuse net
users, and so TLDs should be clearly differentiated by the string and/or by
the marketing and functionality associated with the string.

4. Diversity: New TLDs are important to meet the needs of an expanding
Internet community.  They should serve both commercial and non-commercial
goals.

5. Honesty: A TLD should not unnecessarily increase opportunities for
malicious or criminal elements who wish to defraud net users.

6. Competition: The authorization process for new TLDs should not be used
as a means of protecting existing service providers from competition.

Proposed rough consensus item #3:

WG-C recommends that the Names Council charter a working group to develop
policy regarding internationalized domain names using non-ASCII characters.