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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joanna, Michael and all former DNSO GA members,

  Well almost right maybe.  I disagree that the document in question
is "pretty sensible" given Michal's other comments and reasonable
concerns.

Joanna Lane wrote:

> Exactly right.
> Joanna
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> > Of Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
> > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 11:17 PM
> > To: ga@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ga] PLEASE COMMENT: Suggested ALAC response to sTLD RFP
> >
> >
> > 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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> > A. Michael Froomkin   |    Professor of Law    |   froomkin@xxxxxx
> > U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA
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> >

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