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[gtld-council] [Fwd: Re: Call for papers - Policy Development for new gTLDs]
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- Subject: [gtld-council] [Fwd: Re: Call for papers - Policy Development for new gTLDs]
- From: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:56:07 +0100
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Glen
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Subject: Re: Call for papers - Policy Development for new gTLDs
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:53:40 +0100
From: GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rahul bhonsle <rkbhonsle@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
References: <21d0c27f0601300858y5a5cc5dj7493eaeba2d38b11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Mr Bhonsle,
Thank you very much for your contribution.
NEW gTLDs – NEED FOR PROMOTION OF INTERNET IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES_*
*_POLICY DEVELOPMENT FOR INTRODUCTION OF NEW gTLDs_*
We appreciate your time and effort and will consider it in our
deliberations.
Kind regards,
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO SECRETARIAT
Glen
rahul bhonsle wrote:
Dear Sir, I am forwarding a paper on Policy Development for new gTLDs
with particular reference to developing countries. I will request you to
accept the same. Thanking you. Mr R K Bhonsle. Delhi. India
*_ NEW gTLDs – NEED FOR PROMOTION OF INTERNET IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES_*
*_POLICY DEVELOPMENT FOR
INTRODUCTION OF NEW gTLDs_*
The internet is an elitist revolution in as much as it
caters for knowledge management for the privileged in any community
particularly so in developing countries where the ordinary citizen who
lives just above subsistence level lacks the basic tools for connecting
with the global community. It is the tyranny of being poor, if you are
under privileged you lack the resources for progress, if you lack the
wherewithal you cannot achieve higher levels of development and so on.
In the World today even for the agrarian worker, resource is not land
but information and knowledge. For instance if he has the information
of the weather a few days hence or even tomorrow, he can plan the
agrarian activities of sowing, watering and reaping which are part of
his agricultural routine which are otherwise at the mercy of the element
of unknown. Again it is common knowledge that for marketing goods, the
internet will provide the necessary inputs to rid the farmer from the
clutches of the trader dictated price mechanism. The information,
communication and entertainment revolution has also enabled placing of
knowledge to each and every individual on this planet, hyperbole
notwithstanding. Thus the farmer in Uganda, the reaper in Philippines
or the tendu lead grower in India all have a great opportunity to
leverage this information to advantage for their betterment in
generational leaps rather than age band plodding of the tortoise the
bane of human progress in the pre internet age.
While the hardware and software characteristics of internet
development can ensure that it can reach the nooks and crannies of the
World, be it through the satellite dish, the optic fibre or the
television cable. Here we need to specifically focus our attention to
ensure that the content of the internet can be accessed by constituents
of the developing World who may not be, "net and knowledge savvy",
speedily as well as easily so that they can be assisted in their daily
lives. Identifying these needs that would provide factoid value
addition to these individuals and groups would be essential before we
suggest any gTLDs for them. These issues are concerned with the basic
business of life, earth, water and fire. When should he undertake his
agricultural activities, how much water should he draw and wet his
fields with, what are the rates in the local markets for his produce,
what is the diagnosis for the pain that he is feeling in his chest, what
are the local medicines for snake bite, what are the educational
opportunities for his son, how can he improve his knowledge of science,
apply for colleges beyond the immediate geographical limits, how can he
communicate with his daughter a thousand miles away at an instant, who
has the land rights for the patch of land that he is in possession so
that nobody can really defraud him on his property and on and on, there
are perhaps no limits by which he can access knowledge for his progress
and gain exceptional security even at the most basic levels of
education. For we are catering for local needs from a globalised data
base interpreted in the manner which is easily understandable by the man
in the field. The need for word based understanding is also eliminated
by providing active images, videos and slide based presentations which
can be easily understood and replayed again and again by some one with
even the most basic education levels as that expected from our target
audience overcoming a major problem of unrestricted knowledge
dissemination at present, lack of modern education. It also eliminates
the autocracy of language for the idiom of the internet is universal
especially when it is communication of the image and the video.
Do the present gTLDs assist him in achieving these most
simple aims which we have identified for ourselves above? The
development of the TLD system need not be gone into here, though it
would be only appropriate to highlight that these developments have
taken place purely on commercial first, then geographical, national,
technical and organizational criteria. Thus .com, .edu, .org, .gov,
.biz, .in, .au and so on came to be developed. Presently the gTLDs are
biased towards the elitist interests of business, educational and
knowledge workers and companies including government interests. A review
of all these would also reveal that they lack the ability to cater for
the needs of our target audience being either too generalized or
unrelated to the specific needs of the group. Now country specific
TLDs provide geographic sourcing, these need to be supplemented with
gTLDs designed to meet these requirements. This is perhaps the basic
argument for adding new gTLDs to the existing genre on priority for
internet proliferation in the developing World and would considerably
provide the benefits of digital dividend to those denied its advantage
thus far. This may well mark a new phase in the information revolution
when it attains a truly egalitarian value while at the same time
bringing millions of people on the net providing the eyeballs which the
net business men are hankering for.
So how do we provide the etymological tools for locating
our interests on the internet for the uninitiated in the lattice of the
vast maze that is our net today. We will have to denote the gTLDs with
care and great attention to detail. What would come to mind
straightway is three to four character gTLDs as .land to provide
information of sites giving land records, .met for metrological data,
.agr for agricultural details are three which come immediately to mind,
there could be a few more which can be evolved over the days to enable
pigeon holing of the right type of information for the developing worlds
lowest data crawler. But these perhaps caters for the most basic
information that a primarily agricultural oriented developing world
individual needs for his survival and which is not catered for in the
present hierarchy of TLDs.
An important facet of this process is that of allotment of
the gTLDs. Internet gurus as Tim Berner Lee have been opposing
additions to TLDs as it is providing a leverage to the registrars, the
squatters and the deviants of the internet world another place to make
merry. [1]
<http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=page&name=gp&ver=3403410b768567d8#_ftn1>
When done on a first come first served basis, such a problem is
anticipated so we need to find innovative means for registration. This
could be done to provide all registered companies an automatic link to
the new gTLDs. Thus msn.com <http://msn.com> will automatically gain
registry access to msn.land or msn.met and msn.agr with registration
charges which will be decided by the regulatory authority but these will
not be available after a freeze period to any other company or firm
desirous of such registration. This will ensure that a registered
company has the right over the new TLD until it abdicates the same.
After the initial period is over say of six months to one year, the TLDs
will be open for registration for all takers on an auction basis to
cater for the losses that could have been suffered in the initial stage
of free registration.
The new gTLDs will cater for the developing world commoner,
providers of information on meteorological data, producers of goods for
such markets, consumers of goods and services produced by these and
allied businessmen, traders, manufacturers, government agencies, non
government organizations and so on and of course the information and
service providers operating in the information technology space. Such a
wide band of usage will provide it the commercial viability. Thus there
is no doubt that such a venture is not only the need for bringing the
large mass of humanity in the developing World on board the net but can
also prove to be of benefit to those who make a living on the internet.
Properly regulated, it can overcome the very rightful apprehensions of
our gurus as Tim Berners Lee. So long live the internet and as Google
motto says, "Don't be evil".
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[1]
<http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=page&name=gp&ver=3403410b768567d8#_ftnref1>
Tim Berners Lee, "New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful".
Downloaded from icann.org <http://icann.org>
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
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