RE: [ga] PLEASE COMMENT: Suggested ALAC response to sTLD RFP

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@xxxxxxx>]

Exactly right.
Joanna

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> Of Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
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> Subject: Re: [ga] PLEASE COMMENT: Suggested ALAC response to sTLD RFP
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>
> Actually, the document is considerably better than one usually gets from
> ICANN-affiliated bodies.
>
> Whether or not the authors of this paper are legitimate/properly
> selected/wonderful/powermad/whatever, they seem to have produced a pretty
> sensible paper.
>
> If I could make one suggestion, it is that it might be worth mentining
> that the only reason we don't have an in-hand 'evaluation' of the existing
> 'experiment' of new gTLDs is that ICANN
>
> -refused to define criteria for 'success' or 'failure' ex ante
>
> - sat on the data, disabling others from trying to report anything
>
> - hasn't done anything that suggests its about to report anything
> meaningful
>
> It's not the fault of the new gTLDs, the applicants, or the public -- and
> they shouldn't be penalized.
>
>
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