Re: [ga] On new TLDs

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

I couldn't agree more with you here Karl.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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--

Regards,

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