[alac] new gTLDs
I'll be participating in a DNSO new gTLD committee call tomorrow. Their immediate objective is to give a recommendation on how to structure the namespace for new gTLDs. I'd like to get a sense of whether the ALAC wants to comment on either the substantive issues of namespace structuring or the procedural issues of how at-large should be involved with the substantive discussion going forward. To this point, the gTLD Committee has heard from the business constituency and non-commercial. The business constituency has recommended limited rollout of sponsored, restricted TLDs; non-commercial has called for more rapid expansion, including new generic, unrestricted names. Substantively, I lean toward more rapide expansion of the namespace, without rigid structure imposed, because I think many current domain name conflicts come from artificial scarcity. There doesn't need to be any technical shortage of domain names. Procedurally, it would be good to find a way to hear from the at-large public -- are we aware of any user surveys or other means by which they've spoken already? For this call, I expect mostly to listen, and suggest that I prepare comments after taking their ideas back to the ALAC. Thanks. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html Chilling Effects: http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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