[ga] An allocation proposal by Mueller & McKnight

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Post-.COM Internet:
Toward Regular and Objective Procedures for Internet
Governance
by Milton Mueller & Lee McKnight

Excerpt:  

"This paper makes the case for using regular and
objective procedures to assign new Internet top-level
domain names (TLDs) instead of the unscheduled,
irregular, discretionary and ad hoc processes and
criteria currently used by the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). 

Adopting a regularized process is past due: after 5
years of existence, ICANN has yet to define a method
for managing TLD additions to the root. Yet, the root
of the DNS is an important international resource, and
handling applications for new TLDs is one of ICANN?s
most significant policy responsibilities. 

The paper shows that ICANN?s current approach to TLD
additions is anti-competitive and fosters
rent-seeking, political strife, and the potential if
not the reality for corruption. At the least it
perpetuates the perception of ICANN as operating with
irregular and subjective procedures. This is a
disservice both to ICANN and to the broader Internet
community.

The paper proposes a procedure for adding 40 top-level
domains to the Internet domain name system on an
annual basis. It puts forward a process for doing so
that is predictable in timing and procedure,
rule-driven, and economically efficient. Separate
rounds would be held for commercial and noncommercial
applicants, with 10 noncommercial TLDs and 30
commercial ones being added yearly."

http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/NewTLDs2-MM-LM.pdf

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