Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] New version of the report-draft candidate -- now Version 5

[Richard Tindal <richardtindal@xxxxxx>]

To be consistent with the other proposals,   who removed advocacy language from 
their summaries in the body of the report,     I think the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 
sentences in the first paragraph of the Free Trade summary should also be 
removed.........
Free Trade Proposal Summary

The Free Trade Model proposes that limits on cross ownership (CO) and Vertical 
Integration (VI) are discarded.  If it is consumers who shall be the principal 
beneficiaries of new gTLDs, then ICANN has to believe that a priori 
restrictions on business models constrict the market and reduce consumer choice 
in an expanded domain name market place.  Abuse and harm to consumers are not 
endemic to any particular business model but rather a result of the dissolute 
behavior of actors in the marketplace. These can only be mitigated by rules 
that are certain with fair and assured enforcement. 


RT



On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Mike O'Connor wrote:

> 
> all hail Margie and Marika!
> 
> Marika updated the report and fixed a whole bunch of formatting problems in 
> the draft i published last night.  the latest version is Version 5, out on 
> the wiki at;
> 
>       
> https://st.icann.org/vert-integration-pdp/index.cgi?initial_report_snapshots
> 
> this version is strictly a formatting revision, no content changes.  but it's 
> the one you should use because line-numbers have changed a bit from my draft.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> mikey
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