I agree with you, Marc. Of course, whether ICANN will actually come up with truly objective criteria for rolling out new top-level domains remains to be seen.

Sincerely,
Christopher Chiu
Technology Policy Analyst
American Civil Liberties Union



-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Schneiders [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Notice of Motion


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, at 10:57 [=GMT-0400], Milton Mueller wrote:

> This motion is intended to be considered at the Carthage
> Meeting:
>
> "In order to facilitate compliance with Section II.C.8 of the
> Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Department of
> Commerce and ICANN, the GNSO Council requests that the Staff
> Manager produce an Issues Report on the creation and implementation
> of a regularly scheduled procedure and objective selection criteria for
> new TLD registries."

In case we are to discuss this motion on this list before the meeting
(which very few of us will be able to attend):

1. Why is the MoU in the text? I know ICANN cannot decide new TLDs on
its own. Still, it now has a 3 year contract. The problem is not the
MoU or the US Gov, is it? The problem is that ICANN does not set up a
procedure. Why emphasize the MoU?

2. I would like to emphasize more that it is a long term thing. A
procedure that is valid for 3 years. So that also orgs have enough
time to apply. Not just companies, that can hire lots of people to do
things fast.

For the rest, I am all for it. We should try to open the name space
ASAP.

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