comments on the current version 3 of the 'guidebook'

[David Allen <David_Allen_AB63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comments below as email text, also attached as .doc:

Comment – by David Allen

        re New gTLD
Applicant Guidebook Version 3 (V3)

Module 5

5.2.2

ICANN is requiring full operability for IP v6.  While support for the  
transition to v6 is laudable – provisions that quietly tilt against  
developing world applicants is not, most decidedly not.  Favoritism,  
by shaping provisions easier for incumbent Western applicants, also  
assures increased hostility from other parts of the world.
5.4

The annual fixed fee of US $25K, with the variable fee based on  
transaction volume, opens the question of ICANN annual revenue going  
forward.  Some estimates put the figure at upwards of US $200 M.   
ICANN pointedly holds itself out to be ‘not for profit.’  Is the  
new cash flow going into even more grossly inflated salaries?
Module 6

6.3, 6.5 and 6.6, taken together

ICANN is implicitly acknowledging the monopoly role it would like to  
occupy.  Only a party who feels it holds all the cards would imagine  
it can force the other party into such draconian, utterly one-sided  
provisions.  But will that currently-excluded rest of the world find  
there is an alternative – and the monopoly card has slipped from  
ICANN’s grasp?
David Allen
Concord MA USA

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