My pleasure Dave, I don't know yet if the SSAC made or is planning to make a presentation or put together an official statement about the results of the studies, but by listening at some of the board members, staff, and others from the ICANN community it seems that the message is getting through. I think the biggest issue will certainly come from the pressure that is building up on the commercial side, that besides any reasonable outcome of well thought analysis, including the work to be done on trademarks and IP, this is for them yet another sign saying "we are not ready for gTLDs yet". I understand their concerns, and it has been a huge mistake from ICANN to create such a level of expectation, where many folks on the commercial side took too many things for granted and started rushing to the gold mountain without knowing where the mountain is or if there it is even any gold there. This will require an extra effort from other stakeholders, including NCUC to assist in reducing some of the pressure that has been building up in the gTLD program, and perhaps some counseling to the folks that have been speculating to become instantly rich to deal with their frustration and lack of a concrete timeline. There is a lot of money to be make exploiting the name space (well until the day a new technology or killer application replaces it), and non-commercial folks can also benefit with the expansion of the name space. But, the DNS system has been stable and relatively secure handling up to date more than 113 million domains without counting those under ccTLDs and few sponsored TLDs, rushing up the introduction of new gTLDs has a potential chance of compromising this stability, and in that case we will all lose and the gTLD program will have no credibility at all. My .02 Jorge On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:26 AM, David Cake <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thank you for sharing that. As someone with a technical background, > but who hadn't looked at these issues prior, I found it made a very solid > case for a cautious approach. > Regards > David >