Re: An Open Letter to the IAHC

[Daniel Kaplan <dkaplan@terra-nova.fr>]

Vince Volodkin said:
>You know, I actually think I could get behind this.  I do favor the
>creation of "for cause" gTLDs that might not be profitable, so how about
>a compromise.  The IAHC or whatever representative committee selects a
>number of "for cause" gTLDs to serve the community as a whole, and the
>CORE selects the remaining gTLDs for sheer profit motivations.
>
>Vince Wolodkin
>
>Superuser wrote:
>> 
>> Perry actually has accomplished that impossible feat of persuading me
>> to agree with him! Imagine that!
>> 
>> But then, that makes me even more adamant that the registrars, since
>> they have to share this commodity, should be the ones to select the
>> new gTLDs, and to select how many of them there are. Now, more than
>> ever, I am convinced that this is completely out of the scope of the
>> IAHC.
>> 
>> --
>> Christopher Ambler
>> President, Image Online Design, Inc.
I'm also in favor of such an approach ("for cause" gTLDs being what we 
inappropriately called "generic iTLDs" in our position paper).

But I still agree with IAHC's cautious approach to proactively create a 
small set of gTLDs at first (which could be "for cause" gTLDs), then, 
after some time, open up the process.

And (forgive me for being *so* French, but I do believe this will profit 
the *global* Internet community) we should take care that gTLDs created 
by IAHC are not only meaningful in English. As for gTLDs created by 
registrars, this will be their problem and not ours.

Daniel


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