[governance] Workshop Proposal for Vilnius - City-TLDs: Impact, Best Practices, Governance

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

Having spent a decade working toward the time when TLDs would become available to cities, and with the time of their arrival (possibly) at hand, little guidance has been made available to those interested in developing TLDs that serve the interest of city residents and organizations. I'd like to draw on the wisdom of the list in formulating a proposal on city-TLD best practices and governance for the IGF's Vilnius Conference. I think the recent McTim thread "privatizing cc TLDs" primed the discussion on this issue.

Below is a draft of an IGF proposal for Vilnius. Comments appreciated.

Tom Lowenhaupt

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Title: City-TLD Best Practices and Governance

Objective: Cities have scant precedent and little guidance to draw upon on the features and applications of their "soon to be available" TLDs. This workshop will explore that lacuna looking at four areas: 1. It will present relevant experiences from country code and sponsored TLDs, highlighting successful domain name allocation practices; 2. It will propose a mechanism for engaging expertise from a variety of disciplines, e.g., software engineering, city planning, sociology, economics, and political science, to prepare a primer for developing these critical Internet resources; 3. It will explore structures for sharing best practices; 4. Finally, it will explore governance options for city-TLDs.

Format: The workshop will begin with a 10 minute history of city TLDs, their status, and an introduction of the panelists. Followed by a 15 minute introduction of successful development experiences from country code and sponsored TLDs; 15 minutes reviewing processes for identifying and engaging discipline experts in a the preparation of a city-TLD primer; 15 minutes to explore structures for best practice sharing; and 15 minutes to identify city-TLD governance structures; followed by 50 minutes for comments and questions from workshop participants.
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