<div>I agree with you on this Riaz.</div><div> </div><div>In fact if I am to think from my point of view (a quite limited one) - I don't really see any of these TLDs making any sort of impact to me or people in similar positions/situations. For example the ".travel" extension recently was quite a big thing for us (travel industry) but I dont see any such thing happening with ".rugby" or ".health" or any of them. We already have a ".travel" that has our company name on it, so we wouldnt even dream of investing in something bigger (say ".banyan" given that's my current company's name) - it just doesnt make sense for us. </div>
<div> </div><div>So what reason would I (or any technology person in the same situation) have to participate? (just illustrating the mindset)</div><div> </div><div>-C<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Riaz K Tayob <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com" target="_blank">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">The facts certainly do bear out such an interpretation.<br>
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On the other hand, these facts may speak to the point that, there may be huge barriers to entry ranging from:<br>
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1. "Stakeholders" may not know they do not know (about how to influence the system - a huge comparative advantage to the US who has specialists linked to the praxis).<br>
2. Cost and familiarity with processes, players and importantly prospects of success.<br>
3. Perversity, jeopardy and futility of engagement - linked to prospects of success on initiating a "claim"/policy cahnge/intervention.<br>
4. Lack of legitimacy renders every rejected proposal/complaint (yes this sounds extreme I know) dubious, notwithstanding the exceptions of complaints heard.<br>
5. How decisions are made contextualised in its institutional context matters. Corn cannot expect justice from a court of chickens (African proverb) or in South Africa. Or analogously as some poet critics said about White art in South Africa, we see the bit, the stirrup, the lead and the saddle, but where is the horse (paraphrased...)<br>
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Perhaps it is not just Parminder, although he seems singled out more than others, for posing conjecture/opinion (however well justified and reflecting kaleidescopic reality) as fact.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Riaz</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 2012/09/02 09:27 AM, Roland Perry wrote:<br>
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In message <<a href="mailto:CA%2BEjHYq9hzKi5YTgHxBkr0a-cMosEQfK-HQgsYANJHHR0gnXOQ@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CA+EjHYq9hzKi5YTgHxBkr0a-<u></u>cMosEQfK-HQgsYANJHHR0gnXOQ@<u></u>mail.gmail.com</a>>, at 19:40:14 on Sat, 1 Sep 2012, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <<a href="mailto:pouzin@well.com" target="_blank">pouzin@well.com</a>> writes<br>
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Today, more than 6600 complaints for 1931 gTLD applications<br>
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Actually, an average of less than four complaints per application seems extraordinarily low to me.<br>
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If you regard the comments as an online petition, then typically you'd expect it to require a few tens of thousands of people with a common view (about each complained-of application) to be persuasive, after all there's a worldwide audience for this process.<br>
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What's different about the ICANN system is that a lone voice can make a complaint which will be heard.<br>
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