[governance] Last Crack Progress xTLDs.

[JFC Morfin]

At 15:04 23/02/2011, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>After reading ICANNs recent announcement of a new timetable for the 
>introduction of new gTLDs
>I propose to consider the estabishment of a "Working Group on the 
>Improvement of the Postponement of new gTLD Introduction 
>(WKIPngTLDI). The new Working Group could get a mandate for five 
>years with the option of renewal. The group could have two 
>sub-working groups on "fast postponement" and "slow postponement". 
>The two sub-working groups should create an interim Ad Hoc Committee 
>for the establishmnet of an "Interagency Dialog on Interim 
>Objections and Themes (IDIOT). Volunteers are welcome to apply for 
>the position of an Excecutive Secretary of IDIOT.

On behalf of the Initiative for the Deployment of the Internet 
Operations by Connecting Yourself (IDIOCY) I whish to announce a 
response to this ICANN IDIOT project through "the Last Crack 
Progress". LCP consists in an Internet Community Project to 
experiment a few hundred xTLDs (experimental TLDs) fully respecting 
ICANN ICP-3 rules. Our initial plan was to wait for the introduction 
of the new ICANN gTLDs, in order to avoid possible naming conflicts. 
Due to this IDIOT postponement indetermination, we cannot wait 
anymore. We will therefore consider using ".icann", ".idiot", 
".idiocy", "gac", "ccnso" as probably not planned gTLDs that we can 
use as xTLDs for experimentation purposes in line with IAB recent RFC 
6055 on IDN encoding by John Klensin, Microsoft and Apple.

The IAB is concerned by the use of Non-DNS protocols. Last Crack is 
to particularly experiment:
- the ML-DNS I documented here several times already
- the ICANNS (Indefinite caching accreditation for new names system) 
that works on a CTL (Centuries to live) basis.

What actually concerns me is that the whole ICANN gTLD rigmarole 
(sorry Avri) is totally outside the world digital ecosystem reality, 
as even some at the IETF progressively start accepting it. My worry 
is not about ICANN the NewGAG (new gTLD application Guidebook) will 
most probably kill, but the USG driven replacement, because they will 
come with real authority in an area they totally ignore and will badly blunder.

A very good point was recently made by John Klensin and Vint Cerf, 
IDNA2008 and many other things are not table dependent but technical 
rule dependent. Setting TLD protected tables as the USG plans 
discussing is technically meaningless. What need to be digested, 
accepted, worked on and decided upon are "meta-tables", a dynamic 
underlaying semantic based function set that will have to be built in 
the protocols to accept or protect or do whatsoever with TM names, 
logos, etc.  We are very far from that  (we still are unable to curb 
the spam and only a few have identified the retro-meta-spam [what you 
imply in terms of metadata when you respond/access a document, ex. if 
you respond a French mail, the coming back langtag tells that you 
speak French]). Before we can technically protect what the USG people 
wants to discuss with ICANN, there will be a lot of time. And during 
all this time the USG will look fool and will lose credibility.

If ICANN and GAC lose credibility, who will replace them? Vint Cerf 
and Google for identification naming, people for designating and 
denominative naming. Are we ready for that?
I do not know. We will see that in a few weeks.
jfc


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