FC: CLARIFICATION to ICANN approving new top level domains

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Our reporter wrote the article as the deliberations were ongoing, and 
updated it as the final results came in. I sent out an interim version. The 
final new gTLDs were 7, not 10. --Declan]

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:30:16 -0500
To: declan () well com
From: Alan Davidson <abd () cdt org>

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> > From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
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> > [Wow. I think I started writing about this process back in 1996, and 
> > we're finally seeing it come close to a (temporary) end. Now let's see if 
> > the Clinton administration agrees to add 'em. :) --Declan]
> >
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40228,00.html
> >
> >  ICANN: The Winners Are ...
> >  by Oscar S. Cisneros
> >
> >  2:00 p.m. Nov. 16, 2000 PST
> >  MARINA DEL REY, California -- The number of new top level domains that
> >  will be used on the World Wide Web was narrowed from 44 to 10 on
> >  Thursday.

Declan,

This story talks about ten new TLDs when in fact ICANN only picked *seven* 
finalists.  I was at the raucous and historic LA meeting, and here is the 
relevant passage from the resolution that ICANN passed yesterday:


From http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/new-tld-res.html

RESOLVED [00.___], the Board selects the following proposals for 
negotiations toward appropriate agreements between ICANN and the registry
operator or sponsoring organization, or both:  JVTeam (.biz), Afilias 
(.info), Global Name Registry (.name), RegistryPro (.pro), MDMA (.museum), SITA
(.aero), NCBA (.coop);


There were many complaints about which TLDs ICANN selected and the process 
it used to do so (including the fact that five newly elected At-Large board 
members could not take part in the decision.) Yet it certainly is a welcome 
step to have a set of diverse additions to the congested gTLD space. ICANN 
is changing the landscape of cyberspace -- all the more reason why it needs 
to do more to ensure that the broad range of affected stakeholders have a 
voice in its decisions (and that the now-threatened nine At-Large Director 
seats need to be preserved.)

Best,

Alan

[I know this story was written while ICANN was in the midst of its final 
deliberation, but the headline and its continued circulation are a bit 
misleading.]

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