I'm very disappointed to see Section 9 of Afilias' Appendix
U, attempting to place confidentiality restrictions around certain
categories
of reporting. Afilias is a willing participant in a
testbed, and it certainly
understood when it applied for a new
TLD that, if successful, its launch and
early operations would be
scrutinized by the public in preparation for subsequent
rounds of
new TLDs. If any registry is now unwilling to provide this
information
in a public and timely manner, there are some 40
companies that would gladly
take its place. I'm not unsympathetic to the fear that
proving the concept of
successful competition at the same time your principal
competitor (Verisign) has access to your registration and
marketing data
is self-defeating. But, in this instance, I think the
interest in evaluating
the testbed and moving forward rapidly to a
second round of new TLD selections
trumps these legitimate
temporary concerns. I'd like to see Section 9 of Appendix
U deleted in its entirety. -- Bret Fausett
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