Re[4]: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello NameCritic,

Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 10:56:56 AM, NameCritic wrote:

> More Applicants = More $$$ for ICANN, not more TLDs approved, regardless of
> the applicant's qualifications. In the last round they could have at least
> been honest and said they would approve just 7 tlds before asking for the
> money. They didn't because they are trying to turn it into a lottery where
> they get to choose the winners. They can't even do that in Vegas.

You need to read up more on what really happened,and not listen to the
propaganda from your alt.root buddies.

In fact, the recommendation from the DNSO was for >>6<< new TLDs in
this initial round.  The Workgroup C recommended 6-10 to the Names
Council (a hard fought consensus), and the Names Council recommended
6.

ICANN's BOD then approving 7 shows to be anyway, a good faith effort
to abide by the consensus agreement from the DNSO workgroup C (Which
was open to all) and from the Names Council, who for the most part
followed the workgroup's recommendations in their own.

Not only that but the ICANN BoD also seems to follow the recommended
criteria that came out of the workgroup.

Anyone looking at it objectively (And not from the POV of a rejected
applicant who is trying to justify their position) would see that at
least as far as this round goes, ICANN did what it was supposed to do.

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000321.NCwgc-report.html
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000417.NCwgc-addendum.html
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20000419.NCgtlds-statement.html

The number of likely to be approved applicants was well know in
advance, and most everyone recognized that this would most likely be
6.  ICANN ended up with 7.  And on top of that they did a very decent
job of applying the consensus criteria that many of us worked so hard
on coming to an agreement to in the workgroup c process.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh
mailto:william@userfriendly.com
Owner, Userfriendly.com
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