[governance] new TLDs?

[Milton Mueller]

It's good to get a frank admission from Carlos that he's basically against any new TLD proposal. 

This is a position that has some supporters, but only a very small minority of those who have considered it. Both civil society organs within ICANN (ALAC and NCUC) have adopted resolutions taking the opposite position. Most believe that competition, diversity and multilingualism will require some new TLDs. 

One can only wonder, then, about the priorities and logic of someone who supports top-down intervention by governments to bring about an outcome that he wants but most people in the process don't want. 

>>> Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br> 08/29/05 10:00 AM >>>
If all this means doom to the gTLD business religion, yes, I will be 
very happy!! Have anyone noticed the Internet can run very easily with 
any combination of these letters, or just with ccTLDs, as long as you do 
not touch the numbering infrastructure?

In the meantime, I thank Milton for doing srhink work on me for free ::))

--c.a.

Milton Mueller wrote:

>Bill,
>Perhaps it's because you're an expat American, but you seem to be the
>only person on the list who understands the implications of this. I hope
>people are reading what you said below. People who talk about how much
>they like the "flexibility" of ICANN because it responds to last-minmute
>political pressures are going to find out what that really means. And
>people like Carlos who _think_ they are happy because the US is exerting
>pressure to do what it wants this time, will learn the hard way, too,
>not to abandon principle for expediency.
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>>useful .xxx controversy, America's christian right starts poking
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>>other bits of Internet governance in search of high yield targets.  
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