[governance] Washington Post calls for new gTLD rollout delay

[Adam Peake]

It will also be ITU World Conference on 
International Telecommunications/International 
Telecommunication Regulations year, CSTD/GA 
silliness year.  So if Washington's interested in 
an open Internet it should be careful.

Adam


>
>Bill,
>
>I'd agree with you; except it is a US election year.
>
>Which means the level of - discourse? - in DC 
>heads in one direction; influenced by various 
>interests with boatloads of $.
>
>So random acts of silliness in and around 
>Washington are more than possible for the 
>forseeable future. 
>
>Caveat emptor (if you are planning to spend serious $ on a gtld).
>
>Lee
>
>
>From: governance at lists.cpsr.org 
>[governance at lists.cpsr.org] on behalf of William 
>Drake [william.drake at uzh.ch]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:13 AM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Narine Khachatryan
>Subject: Re: [governance] Washington Post calls for new gTLD rollout delay
>
>The post used to be quite a good paper back in 
>the latter days of the Viet Nam war, Watergate 
>etc.  In the Bush era it moved right to try to 
>compete with the Rev. Moon-owed Washington 
>Times, which was the preferred Fox on paper 
>source for the cowboy boots and big hair 
>brigade.  It still runs a regular front page 
>feature "On Faith" where politicos can find out 
>what Jesus would do about carbon emissions, stem 
>cells, and drones.  It's also really struggled 
>to position itself for the digital market, and 
>it's not hard to believe some lawyer got in the 
>new management's ear and screamed the sky is 
>falling because you may have defensively 
>register wapost.newgltd so clueless readers are 
>not misdirected.
>
>Kieren may be right that ICANN management isn't 
>playing this stuff in most deft manner possible, 
>but I wouldn't regard the post's entry into the 
>fray as some sort of game changer.
>
>Bill
>
>
>
>On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Narine Khachatryan wrote:
>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>Washington Post calls for new gTLD rollout delay
>>
>>
>>by Kieren McCarthy | 11 Dec 2011
>>
>>
>>The Washington Post has called for the rollout 
>>of hundreds of new Internet extensions to be 
>>delayed, claiming that the program is "not 
>>ready for prime time".
>>
>>In the lead editorial in Monday's paper, 
>>entitled "What's the .rush?" the influential 
>>journal takes issue with plans to open out the 
>>top level of the Internet and
>>
>>aims a series of punches at ICANN itself, 
>>claiming it is unaccountable, non-responsive 
>>and may undermine its own legitimacy by driving 
>>ahead with plans to
>>
>>open up applications on 12 January.
>>
>>
>>Read 
>>more <http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/11/washington-post-calls-for-gtld-delay>http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/11/washington-post-calls-for-gtld-delay
>>
>>--
>>
>>
>>Nariné Khachatryan
>>Media Education Center
>>Yerevan, Armenia
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