Re: Framework for IAHC proposals

[George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au>]

You refer to the IAHC in ways which suggest it becomes enmeshed in an
ongoing process. That in itself might want to be an issue to be considered
on its merits. Does there need to be a more formalized process for admin
of the iTLD level? Perhaps I over-state this implication.

Under the IAHC Operation heading you note fees for ISOC/IETF for iTLD/registry
establishment. Again, that is bound to be contentious and may need to be
stated in a different way or posed as a question (I support it wholeheartedly
by the way) Since some proponents of new iTLD dispute the current process
has any legitemacy. If you intend ruling that area out of bounds, that too
may need to be stated.

I think the method of selecting iTLD and registry needs to be considered
alongside the question of how many/what rate/nameforms. They are intimately
connected for those seeking to define .pizza or .biz, or asserting ownership
rights over iTLD.

Ownership of iTLD in itself needs to be a defined issue: who can assert 
ownership and in what legal domains its meaningful. Similarily what bodies
can potentially act to resolve these kinds of issues.

Your preamble and some following text effectively pushes all issues of IPR
off the short-term agenda. I think you might want to stress (a) the complexity
of the problems in that domain (b) the urgency of some parallel activity
starting soon to address it. 

I found this a useful document in terms of stating a problem-space and
proposing a scope for discussion. 

In particular, I think suggesting things proceed by stepwise refinement of what
we have is laudible.

Having noted in previous mail that shared registries demand software support
don't you need that noted in the RFP as well?

Also, who gets to nominate which iTLD are candidates for shared authority
and under what process, assuming multiple registries are tenable at all?

-George

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