If y'all don't mind, if anyone is submitting a report and would like a signature, I wouldn't mind reading commentary and signing it if it sounds good. I'm sure others on this list feel the same and it'd be cool to have a nice long list of signatories at the top. :) -s On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 22:33, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote: > From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> > To: MOSCOWITZ Alain <Alain.MOSCOWITZ@totalfinaelf.com>, christian.ahlert@socio-legal-studies.oxford.ac.uk, 'Nuria de la Fuente Teixidó' <ateneas@retemail.es>, 'Christian Ahlert' <christian.ahlert@wolfson.oxford.ac.uk>, 'Denise Michel' <denisemichel@sbcglobal.net>, 'Esther Dyson' <edyson@edventure.com>, 'Edmundo Valenti' <emv@southtech.com.ar>, 'Erick Iriarte Ahon' <faia@amauta.rcp.net.pe>, 'Gonzalo Auza' <gonzalo@juandegaray.org.ar>, 'Gabriel Piñeiro' <gpineiro@derecho.org.ar>, 'Hans Klein' <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>, 'Veni Markovski' <icannatlarge@isoc.bg>, 'Satyajit Gupta' <icheckemail@indiatimes.com>, 'Izumi Aizu' <izumi@anr.org>, 'Jakobsen Tom (E-mail)' <JacobsenTom@acm.org>, 'Jon Thorhallsson' <jon.thorhallsson@cecua.org>, 'Andriamparany Marius' <marius@refer.mg>, 'Na. Vijayashankar' <naavi@vsnl.com>, 'Peter Shane' <pshane@andrew.cmu.edu>, 'Ramboasalama Haja' <ramboa@ird.mg>, 'Rick Hauptman' <RBHauptman@aol.com>, 'Ramayya Krishnan' <rk2x@andrew.cmu.edu>, 'Sotiris Sotiropoulos' <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>, 'Alexander Svensson' <svensson@icannchannel.de>, 'Tommi Karttaavi' <tommi.karttaavi@iki.fi>, 'Vittorio Bertola' <vb@bertola.eu.org>, roessler@does-not-exist.org > Subject: Please forward: ICANN to establish criteria for future gTLDs > Date: 15 Nov 2002 01:33:37 +0100 > > Return-Path: <roessler@does-not-exist.org> > Received: from host.hermesnetwork.com (root@localhost) > by hermesnetwork.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAF0dpm31151 > for <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:39:51 -0500 > X-ClientAddr: 212.227.126.171 > Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) > by host.hermesnetwork.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAF0doG31145 > for <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:39:50 -0500 > Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) > by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) > id 18CUW7-00015r-00; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:39:27 +0100 > Received: from [217.0.178.157] (helo=coruscant.does-not-exist.org) > by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) > id 18CUW6-00054u-00; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:39:26 +0100 > Received: from voyager.does-not-exist.org (dhcp-2-145.tlr-net.does-not-exist.org [192.168.2.145]) > by coruscant.does-not-exist.org (Postfix) with ESMTP > id 106382ED12; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:34:35 +0100 (CET) > Received: by voyager.does-not-exist.org (Postfix, from userid 500) > id 84DDF80A0; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:33:37 +0800 (CST) > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:33:37 +0100 > From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> > To: MOSCOWITZ Alain <Alain.MOSCOWITZ@totalfinaelf.com>, > christian.ahlert@socio-legal-studies.oxford.ac.uk, > "'Nuria de la Fuente =?iso-8859-1?Q?Teixid=F3'?=" <ateneas@retemail.es>, > "'Christian Ahlert'" <christian.ahlert@wolfson.oxford.ac.uk>, > "'Denise Michel'" <denisemichel@sbcglobal.net>, > "'Esther Dyson'" <edyson@edventure.com>, > "'Edmundo Valenti'" <emv@southtech.com.ar>, > "'Erick Iriarte Ahon'" <faia@amauta.rcp.net.pe>, > "'Gonzalo Auza'" <gonzalo@juandegaray.org.ar>, > "'Gabriel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pi=F1eiro'?=" <gpineiro@derecho.org.ar>, > "'Hans Klein'" <hans.klein@pubpolicy.gatech.edu>, > "'Veni Markovski'" <icannatlarge@isoc.bg>, > "'Satyajit Gupta'" <icheckemail@indiatimes.com>, > "'Izumi Aizu'" <izumi@anr.org>, > "'Jakobsen Tom (E-mail)'" <JacobsenTom@acm.org>, > "'Jon Thorhallsson'" <jon.thorhallsson@cecua.org>, > "'Andriamparany Marius'" <marius@refer.mg>, > "'Na. Vijayashankar'" <naavi@vsnl.com>, > "'Peter Shane'" <pshane@andrew.cmu.edu>, > "'Ramboasalama Haja'" <ramboa@ird.mg>, > "'Rick Hauptman'" <RBHauptman@aol.com>, > "'Ramayya Krishnan'" <rk2x@andrew.cmu.edu>, > "'Sotiris Sotiropoulos'" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>, > "'Alexander Svensson'" <svensson@icannchannel.de>, > "'Tommi Karttaavi'" <tommi.karttaavi@iki.fi>, > "'Vittorio Bertola'" <vb@bertola.eu.org>, roessler@does-not-exist.org > Subject: Please forward: ICANN to establish criteria for future gTLDs > Message-ID: <20021115003336.GA5547@voyager.does-not-exist.org> > Reply-To: roessler-mobile@does-not-exist.net > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > While we don't have a working ALAC, yet, the next new gTLD process > may be one of the first substantial questions the ALAC will have to > comment on. For this reason, I'd like to ask you to forward this > message to your respective organizations, and to encourage the > submission of comments to ICANN. > > > ICANN to establish criteria for future gTLDs > > > ICANN's president and CEO, M. Stuart Lynn, has published an action > plan regarding new gTLDs, available from ICANN's web site. > > <http://www.icann.org/committees/ntepptf/new-gtld-action-plan-18oct02.htm> > > The plan suggests, subject to the eventual approval by the board, > that ICANN undertakes three steps in parallel: > > 1. Perform a process to add three more sponsored gTLDs to the DNS > root, provided that (a) the organizations coordinating the new > sponsored registries [added in the 2000 round of new gTLDs] are able > to manage the required technical and business responsibilities, and > that (b) registrations in these sponsored gTLDs indeed match the > established registration criteria. The president's report suggests > that these two questions can be answered in relatively short time, > and that the answer will be consistent with adding more sponsored > gTLDs. > > 2. Evaluate and monitor the effects of the gTLDs added to the DNS > root in 2000. This evaluation is suggested to be the task of a TLD > evaluation advisory committee. > > 3. Start work on the framework for future introductions of new > gTLDs. Developing this framework and process is part of ICANN's > assignments under its amended Memorandum of Understanding with the > U.S. Department of Commerce. This is nothing less than the framework > under which ICANN will perform one of its most crucial "steady > state" functions, the addition of new gTLDS. > > The specific question raised in the president's report is whether > the addition of new TLD strings should happen in a purely > market-driven manner, or whether ICANN should administer a process > to a priori design a "rational and comprehensive set of available > TLD strings", which would then be made available to registries in a > bidding process. The president's report suggests that this question > should be referred to the DNSO/GNSO for consideration and advice. > The Names Council currently does not expect to initiate a formal > policy-development process on this question. Rather, it is > anticipated that an eventual referral of this question by the board > will be handled by the Council itself, on the basis of input from > the various constituencies. > > ICANN's answer to this question will have a great impact on the > future development on the DNS name space. > > > For this reason, I urge you to analyze the president's report, and > to submit comments to ICANN both on the proposed process, and in > particular on the basic framework you suggest for future, "steady > state" additions of new gTLDs. If thinking on this framework is > available in a timely manner, it will also be much easier to > communicate to the Names Council those perspectives and positions > which may not be represented by the existing DNSO/GNSO > constituencies. > > > Comments should be submitted to <gtld-plan-comments@icann.org>, and > should ideally be made before 10 December 2002. Comments received > by ICANN are archvied at <http://forum.icann.org/>. > > Please forward this message as appropriate.
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