My first ICANN meeting ended with one of the GNSO Committee members calling for an end of the cycle of Guidebooks, comment periods and revised Guidebooks for the new gTLD’s stating:
“This will be an endless process if it keeps going as it has been going” said GNSO member Andrei Kolesnikov
Calling the 4th Version of the Guidebook, “a beautiful document”, he urged ICANN to simply approve the latest version:
“We cannot resolve all the problems of all humanity”
Stating that not everyone on earth will be happy with any version of the Guide Book, Mr. Kolesnikov of the Russian Federation said it was time to call it a day.
The committee seemed to agree that the next Guidebook will be the final Guidebook.
The final Guidebook will be issued sometime prior to the next ICANN meeting set for Colombia in early December.
At that point it will go to the board for approval.
Before final approval there will have to be a final “independent” economic study that will somehow show that the benefits of the new gTLD’s will outweigh any detriments and another study that will show that adding 500 or more new extensions in the next 3 years will not be harmful to the root.
I think the situation was best summed up by a member of the panel which said:
“We are either going to get to a place where we get a consensus or people just get warn out.”
Bottom line it looks like this will be your last chance to comment on the new gTLD process as the next Guidebook will go to a vote by the board.
There were many other interesting tidbits that came out of the meeting but that is for another day and another post.
Bye for now from an extremely cold, wet and windy Brussels.
With all due respect, the “ICANN Experiment” has run it’s course. Reruns are not interesting.
The first Internet a person may see is now a TV and IR Remote. Internet@TV from Samsung is in BluRay players, with HDMI and DLNA streaming video support.
Some people may claim Internet@TV is not the Internet. OK, fine, sounds like a plan. The main point is the first DNS a person may see is NOT the ICANN PBS-like flavor.
The second Internet a person may see, will likely be some WIFI/MAX service to a small hand-held device. Again, they will not see an ICANN DNS.
The third Internet a person may encounter will likely be via a Video Game Console. See .E3 in .LA Again, ICANN DNS will not be suitable.
Eventually, a young person may encounter a diskless PC, connected to a UNIX support server. They will not be using an ICANN DNS feed.
The “ICANN Experiment” has run it’s course. Reruns are not interesting.
“.. adding 500 or more new extensions in the next 3 years”
500? What an absurd concept. The internet’s evolved organization will be pushed in the direction of a third world wasteland. Thrown under the bus.
Remember the phrase “noise pollution” from the 1970’s? 500 new tld’s? … like 500 radios all tuned to different stations.
“.. adding 500 or more new extensions in the next 3 years”
500? What an absurd concept.” ?????
With the new DNS the selection of TLDs is Automated (Untouched by Humans). The number of slots has been expanded from 2048 to 4096.
http://www.icann.org/en/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html
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Max
I would say remember the days before cable tv when you only got 5 stations at most (yes I’m that old), then came cable which brought another 40 stations then satellite Tv and digital cable and we have hundreds of station and what’s the most watch channel, probably Youtube.com.
Its the ever expanding march of “more” and those wanting a piece of the pie.
Interesting analogy Mike. I remember those same couple of channels. The three networks and a local UHF channel or two.
Even the channel additions over the years came in small clusters though. I can see that the forthcoming tld additions are imminent. In my way of thinking, to proceed with several at a time is a superior approach than the suggested floodgate strategy. In fact, several distinct tld’s could be a welcome addition. But not the unrestrained money-grab method imo.
I could stomach this coming debacle a bit better if ICANN would demonstrate good will & good conscience by formalizing price caps on existing tld renewals. Until they do that, trusting their judgement and oversight is rather foolish. A wolf in sheep’s clothing until having proven otherwise.
Long story short is I’ll get over it. If it blows up, ICANN will basically walk away money in pocket. An old story repeated many times thru history.
@MHB
“Its the ever expanding march of “more” and those wanting a piece of the pie.”
+1
@M. Menius
“I could stomach this coming debacle a bit better if ICANN would demonstrate good will & good conscience…”
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ICANN does not have to do anything at this stage. The new TLDs can be Synthetic, created from the .COM and .CO zones.
It will be like the Three Stooges – Moe, Larry and Curly – Moe will be the Virtual TLD and COM and CO will back it up
Google for DNSMASQ to study the first phase of the software – You are likely using it – In 1998, people said DNSMASQ would NEVER gain any market share – It currently has almost 100% market share