Well the news is partly good and partly
bad. As a whole the letter seems to be an attempt by NTIA to get ICANN to stop
or delay for another 2 years or so any addition of new TLDs. We know that lots
of business/trademark lobbies have been complaining loudly about the new gTLD
process. While the paragraph cited by Robin does indeed agree with our
position, the general upshot is “back to square one.” I would like
to solicit constituency comment: is this new gTLD process so bad that we want
to stop it altogether? In many ways this would have to be seen as a massive
failure – after 10 years, ICANN still cannot define an ongoing process to
add new TLDs?
From: Non-Commercial
User Constituency [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robin Gross
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008
1:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS]
The US Govt submitted its comments to ICANN on the introduction of new
gTLDs.
And the US Govt agreed with a point NCUC has been making throughout
this entire process. The
Interesting to say
the least.
Best,
Robin