Re: [wg-c] CONSENSUS CALLS -- THIS IS IT

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:29 AM 4/11/00 -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:

>PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER ONE
>
>         The initial rollout should include a range of top level domains, 
> from open
>TLDs to restricted TLDs with more limited scope.

No.

Do one thing at a time.  This is all already FAR too complicated.

The original goal was to create competition for com/net/org.  Restricted 
TLDs constitute and entirely new and separate task.  Adding them is just 
one more way to ensure much more delay.


>PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER TWO
>
>         Criteria for assessing a gTLD application, subject to current 
> technical
>constraints and evolving technical opportunities, should be based on all of
>the following principles :

No, as "criteria".

As points of information to be supplied by those promoting the TLD, the 
list is probably fine.

Absent any means of applying these "criteria" objectively and mechanically, 
they serve only as more fodder for divisive debate and, therefore, more 
delay.  For example, how will criterion 3 be tested, without at least 
sampling Internet users?


>PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER THREE
>
>         WG-C recommends that the Names Council charter a working group to 
> develop
>policy regarding internationalized domain names using non-ASCII characters.

Yes.

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