[governance] Re: New TLDs

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Michael,

thanks for bringing these complications to the fore. To further complicate 
the picture about geographic names, your email strikes a nerve. Why would 
.buxtehude have a better reason to be assigned to a geographic entity than 
to the much better known Diderik or Dietrich Buxthude, whom Bach admired, 
and whom many more thousands of people - like me - find a provider of a 
music so essential that it is a vital fluid in our lives?

As with many other subjects this list has been discussing, this one has 
long been in development in ICANN's GNSO and in other specialized fora. 
Fortunately ICANN's process for new gTLDs is in progress, as you and 
Bertrand correctly acknowledge, and would be susceptible to further input 
and discussion of this kind. Expanding the accumulated understanding that 
has occurred there with fresh, never-yet-considered views will always be 
healthy. The fora exist and are open; one would guess that the present 
leadership of the NCUC of ICANN would come out and expose its openness and 
transparency in this discussion to further invite new membership.

That ICANN's GAC is increasingly active and interested, and organized to 
attend these concrete matters without leaving the level of principle-based 
advice, is concomitant with the Joint Working Group between the GAC and 
the Board, and the more-detailed discussions with the specific interested 
parties.

It is thus far more developed than the by-surprise approach some 
governments exerted on the .xxx discussion; as many of you may remember, 
this was considered well near a dereliction of duty by a few even before 
the final stage of WSIS. That call to duty had a positive response in the 
much improved GAC relationship that is now developing.

There may be different opinions, we know, on the importance, relevance, 
and opportunity of the above facts - but I hope that, as facts, they are 
useful to guide discussions.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Michael Leibrandt wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:06:45 +0200
> From: Michael Leibrandt <michael_leibrandt at web.de>
> Reply-To: governance at lists.cpsr.org,
>     Michael Leibrandt <michael_leibrandt at web.de>
> To: bdelachapelle at gmail.com, governance at lists.cpsr.org,
>     wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de
> Cc: LMcKnigh at syr.edu, Mueller at syr.edu, expression at ipjustice.org,
>     goldstein.david at yahoo.com.au
> Subject: [governance] Re: New TLDs
> 
> Dear Bertrand,
>
> Having a German academic background, I feel a somewhat natural symphathy for rules and categories. But the problem with TLD is that even within specific categories you will find some very distinct under-categories. To give you an example regarding City TLD: In Germany, some city names are protected as trademarks, some are not. So completely different rules would have to be aplied to proposals for .solingen or .buxtehude.
>
> With regard to the development of evaluation rules: Don't you think that for a specific set of possible TLD, Geo-TLD, the new GAC Principles do already contain some quite important and clear evaluation criteria (e.g. support of the relevant local authority)?
>
> Michael
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