[governance] Washington Post calls for new gTLD rollout delay

[Lee W McKnight]

Bill,

Since ICANN is a product of the Clinton Administration; it is very easy for .XXX to be tied to...Monica Lewinsky.

See I just did.

And it is at the least a trivially easy way to divert attention from the currently leading Republican candidate's own issues of personal morality; should he wish to push that particular button.

So yeah I am saying - we got 11 months of silliness to look forward to.

Traditionally ICT issues are way down the list of DC priorities so I am not suggesting anything is particularly likely - other than 11 months of random acts of siliness.

Lee
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From: William Drake [william.drake at uzh.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:52 AM
To: Lee W McKnight
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Narine Khachatryan
Subject: Re: [governance] Washington Post calls for new gTLD rollout delay

Hi Lee

Are saying that Tea Party Congressman Dinglepop from South Carolina will be running a reelection campaign based on the argument that the Obama administration failed to exercise authority it does not have in order to block an initiative that will increase private sector investment in the Internet?  And that we know this is bad because the Washington Post says so (which to "the base" is probably just shy of saying "the New York Times says so")?

This would be piece of random silliness worth buying tickets for, no?

Bill

On Dec 13, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Lee W McKnight wrote:

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

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From: governance at lists.cpsr.org<mailto: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<mailto: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

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Nariné Khachatryan
Media Education Center
Yerevan, Armenia
http://www.immasin.am <http://www.immasin.am/>
http://www.safe.am/
http://www.mediaeducation.am/



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