Re: [wg-c] new TLDs

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while I agree wit you Jonathan, I would like to add that it seems to 
me that some of the boardmembers did not read the material (or 
part of them) thus having no clue what was going on.

but at the end I am happy that we got some (tld) and hope the 
process will continue.

siegfried

On 17 Nov 00, at 13:46, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, James Love wrote:
> > I have recieved some private mail, asking if we were happy with the
> > ICANN results, and the answer is no.  Like many others, were were
> > disappointed with many of the rejections and many of the comments from
> > various board members.  That said, I think that Jonathan and others who
> > moved the process forward deserve thanks, and I hope this leads to a
> > further expansion of the root.  I thought it was interesting how close
> > the numbers came to the 6 to 10 from the WG-C report.   We'd like to see
> > thousands added, and I imagine these will lead to a much greater number
> > down the road.  I hope so.  I feel badly for those who paid the $50k and
> > were rejected on very arbitrary grounds.
> 
> 	I agree, FWIW, that there was a whole lot wrong with the selection
> process, which was ad hoc and arbitrary; to pick just one example, I think
> the way that the Sarnoff application (I've got no connection with it) was
> first accepted and then torpedoed was completely egregious.  (I'm
> confident, Rod, that we won't see any written explanations of the Board's
> decisions.)  But there were a lot of days while the process was unfolding
> when I was unsure whether we'd see any new TLDs at all.  I'm glad we've
> made it this far, and hopeful that the Board members (although not staff)
> seem genuinely interested in further approvals.
> 
> Jon
> 
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> Jonathan Weinberg
> weinberg@msen.com
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