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Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
From: brunner () nic-naa net
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:57:06 -0400
ray,
... only trust ".band" and that ".com" et. al. are "less secure".
"secure" is not a well-defined term. as the .com registry access model accepts credit card fraud risk, a hypothetical registry, say .giro, with wholesale registration at the same dollar price point but an access mechanism accepting less risk than credit card fraud would have less "insecure" registration events. as john levine pointed out, the hstld advisory group attempted to address a property of "zone file(s)." as a member of that advisory group i made public comments on the issues, technical and process, it encountered.
With a $185,000 application fee this tends to really kill small businesses and conditions the public to favor ecommerce with the giants, not to mention a nice revenue boost for ICANN. Would love to hear the dirt on backroom conversations that led to this decision...
a mainer has been invovled in policy development since, before there was an icann. a vermonter is on the current icann board. when looking for root causes, while the policy recommendation made by the policy development body did not restrict the implementation of the new gtld application process to a single event, staff adversity to law suit risk precluded distinguishing between types of applications based on policy -- say "high policy" applications like the original sponsored applications before "low policy" applications like the original standard applications -- and evaluating one type before the other. i suggest to you that institutional risk adversity (there exists a litigation history with the legacy monopoly operator) is the answer to questions of the form "wny one single, indivisible, wicked expensive, evaluation process for all?"
... there will be enough public outcry to reverse it... but I'm not optimistic.
i would prefer "participation" over "outcry", and the act of "involvment" seems to be more on point than the mental state of being "optimistic", but milage always varies. on thursday there will be a text from the governmental, and the at large, advisory groups, on applicant support from developing economies. -e
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- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs, (continued)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jay Ashworth (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jaap Akkerhuis (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jay Ashworth (Jun 19)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Matthew Palmer (Jun 19)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Robert E. Seastrom (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Owen DeLong (Jun 19)
- The Internet Is An Engineering Construct (was: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs) Jay Ashworth (Jun 19)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Ray Soucy (Jun 21)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jorge Amodio (Jun 21)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Joly MacFie (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jorge Amodio (Jun 23)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs John Levine (Jun 23)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jorge Amodio (Jun 23)