[ga] On new TLDs
I think you are getting caught up in ICANN winds and tending to follow the ICANN pied piper - you are being led into the wilderness of ICANN minutae. The point on new TLDs is that ICANN should not be asking whether someone want or does not want a new TLD, or whether a given TLD is good or bad. Instead ICANN should only ask if the proponent of a TLD will follow internet standards; operate its name servers to a given set of technical metrics for performance, security, recoverability, and fair access; and refrain from using the TLD for illegal purposes. Beyond that ICANN should get out of the way and let innovation have its day in the sun to grow and thrive or wither and fail. ICANN has an unjustified and unwritten rule that it can not allow a TLD to fail. That unjustified and unwritten rule has poisoned ICANN's entire history on TLD allocation. --karl--
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