[governance] New gTLD.

[Rudi Vansnick]

For your information, I will be at the meeting in Brussels as I obtained a
RSVP yesterday. Being based in Belgium, I can provide some assistance to
those coming to Belgium Brussels. Just let me know.

Best regards,

Rudi Vansnick
President/CEO Internet Society Belgium
Tel : +32 (0)9 329 39 16


Roland Perry wrote:
> 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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