Re: ICANN: Pay Now, Maybe Get a New Top-Level Domain Later

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Synthesis:Law and Technology Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com 
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Date: November 2, 2009 9:47:37 AM EST
To: dave () farber net, lauren () vortex com
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN: Pay Now, Maybe Get a New Top-Level Domain Later

Dave,

I find it hard to disagree with much of  Lauren's analysis. But if  
there is a problem, and if the problem that exists is the reason that  
Lauren thinks gTLD expansion is not wise, then why not fix the  
problem?  The problem was created by policy decisions.  ICANN is in  
the policy-decision business, no? Fix the problems and the reasons to  
not spend energy on gTLD expansion go away.  The core idea of not  
binding netizens to use English and our character set for identifiers  
is a good one, right?  Yes .info is a problem.  But at the global  
level, whole countries are problems and some get blacklisted by decent  
countries at some time.  That is appropriate behaviour at the  
international level.  Did we use the fact that there were bans/ 
sanctions against countries as a reason to get rid of the country  
system?

Dan Steinberg

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