[governance] New gTLD.

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<AANLkTinnb0=Gzq0xFXe94EQqEXQgXFQUAJAZZmWzkmDY at mail.gmail.com>, at 
17:49:35 on Mon, 7 Feb 2011, carlos watson <carloswatson at gmail.com> 
writes
>Comments about this
>
>http://blog.internetgovernance.org/pdf/USGmonstrosity.pdf
>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20030854-501465.html

Ultimately, you need to participate (remotely if not in person) at the 
GAC/Board meeting in Brussels and hear the arguments at first hand.

As for the case supporting objections: if Germany blocked .nazi at a 
national firewall (their national laws might make it compulsory to do 
so), some would call that "breaking the Internet" because it defeats the 
principle of universal reachability. So their answer would be to make 
sure it was never issued, so never had to be blocked. But that does 
indicate that there might be quite a long list of such potential TLDs, 
and ignores blocking going on today.

And not just because of "morality" issues. Some countries block 
skype.com, so you'd expect them also to block .skype; and of course this 
is all before we start to consider names which are quite inoffensive in 
their native tongue but mean something rude in another (this issue has 
been addressed previously by some authorities administering vehicle 
vanity licence plates - sometimes there are lessons we can learnt from 
other name-spaces, although the trademark name-space seems to have got 
its teeth firmly into the issue already).

Finally, I don't think "but they cost $200k and no-one will risk 
spending that on an easily rejectable name" is a useful stance, because 
I'm not sure a fine of that magnitude for falling at the first hurdle 
would be judged equitable, and one day the price may well be only $100.
-- 
Roland Perry
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