RE: [council] Definitions and measures of competition , consumer trust, and consumer choice

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Got it. Thanks Bruce.


Tim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [council] Definitions and measures of competition ,
> consumer trust, and consumer choice
> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, January 13, 2011 2:57 pm
> To: "Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hello Tim,
> 
> 
> >>  Could you provide the source for the conclusions you make below, or are
> they your own? 
> 
> Purely my own quick thoughts - none of them need to be accepted in any way :-)
> 
> 
> 
> >>  Regarding the
> latter, at some point .com may be less 20% but if a large portion of
> other gTLD registrations are only defensive and mostly point to .coms,
> is that a good sign of competition?
> 
> No.
> 
> >>  Finally, I'm not sure it is a good idea for the regulator's own criteria
> and evaluation to be the only measure of the effectiveness of its
> regulations. So we should consider third party involvement as well.
> 
> Agreed.   But given we as a community are initiating a project - lets at 
> least have some shared measures of our own.  Any independent review may wish 
> to look at other aspects - but we at least need our own measures to manage 
> our own projects.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce