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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Fri Jun 27 07:25:22 2008

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:25:12 +0200
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <BF08482709F8B24484F80A48DE20BEF36F41C9@agusto.kerfisleiga.is>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Martin,

You know the phrase "Paris is worth a mass"? Well, we get .paris, as 
well as .cat, and other reasonable things, plus chaff and clutter.

Eric

Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Eric;
>
> The only reason I would have supported rejecting the proposal is the 'morality' language related to offensive TLD's. .  
>
> What's your take on that part of the process? 
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
> To: Martin Hannigan
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>; =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_?=@mxa.skyrr.is <=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_?=@mxa.skyrr.is>
> Sent: Fri Jun 27 10:57:15 2008
> Subject: Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
>
> Martin,
>
> I wasn't that impressed with Dave's remarks, but I heard them rather 
> than read them, which may have made a difference. I agree with your 
> views on the substance and spirit of Susan's and Wendy's statements.
>
> This -- the new GTLD process -- was originally scheduled to get to 
> completion in 2003 and 2004 -- after the initial 2000 round.
>
> Eric
>
> Martin Hannigan wrote:
>   
>>> See pages 17 - 20 of https://par.icann.org/files/paris/gTLDUpdateParis-23jun08.pdf
>>> See pages 22 - 25 of https://par.icann.org/files/paris/gTLDUpdateParis-23jun08.pdf
>>>     
>>>       
>>  
>> I think that this is a good read as well, especially the comments by Dave Wodeley, Susan Crawford, and Wendy Seltzer.
>>  
>> https://par.icann.org/files/paris/BoardMeeting_26June08.txt
>>
>>  
>> Best,
>>
>> Martin
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