[tld-global-acceptance] Can we get this list going?

["Hoover, Carolyn" <choover@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Can we get this list going?

Barbara Roseman had posed some issues in her initial email to the charter members of this list.  After some discussion within the gTLD Registry Constituency group and with Barbara, the following suggestions seem appropriate in terms of organizing the list prior to general publicity:

Some operational issues:
1) Should the list be completely open for subscription and posting?, or
should it be a moderated list, open for subscription but with moderated
posts?, or should it stay invitation-only, with only participants able to post?

It was felt that the list should be moderated for subscription but not for posting.  This would reduce the effort on a moderator because they would only need to review requests for addition and not all postings.  Barbara indicated that ICANN can add a spam filter so that any suspect postings can be reviewed prior to release.  The problem would be to identify a moderator as only the list itself is provided by ICANN and not any support such as a moderator.  Would someone volunteer to do this?

2) Should the list be publicized for further participation? Where, and
under what conditions?

This list should be made generally available so that not only registries and ISPs but other affected constituencies and their members can be a part of this discussion.  Barbara suggested that ICANN publish this list on the ICANN web site to increase exposure once the basic rules are set.  Interested constituencies can alert others as well.

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3) This group needs to be self-organizing. A useful discussion can probably
be initiated by creating a taxonomy of difficulties encountered in using
the newer TLDs, but moving things forward will have to be done collectively
by the participants.

Here is the list of items that have been reported in my tld in a generic manner:

• Registrants with new tld email addresses have their email rejected.  The same email sent from a .com or .org address is accepted.
• Organizations sending messages to a new TLD address show that mail as rejecting even though mail from others is delivered to the .coop email boxes.
• New tld registrants receive reports that Internet users cannot access their site although they can access the related .org, .com, etc. site.
• New tld email addresses are not accepted as contact addresses on e-commerce sites, requiring a secondary email address for those trying to use many common online vendors.
• Registrants find that their current web hosting firms will not host a new tld site or will not redirect a new tld domain name to an existing site forcing a change in vendor if they want to use the new tld domain name.

Can other tlds add to this list please?

4) Some testing was done by the ISP group in South America in February immediately prior to the meeting in Rome.  Have any results from that testing identified issues that can be discussed on this list?

I am interested in your comments.  If others need to be added to the list at this time in order to expand this discussion, we are still setup so that they should send a request to be added to the list to Barbara at roseman@xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,

Carolyn T. Hoover
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