Mike,This proposal with respect to .org is akin to retrospective legal insistance
that corporations whose monikers do not literally describe their function (eg. "A
Hundred Monkeys", a business naming consultation firm) change to something more descriptive
of their function. How could an "appropriate transition period" reduce liability?
You
fail to properly recognize that this proposal is NOT analogous to changing a street
name, or a routine phone number change for infrastructure purposes (although those
can be troublesome enough.) This goes much further. It's an issue of *identity*,
as outlined above.
ICANN could not have agreed to a more favorable deal for VeriSign.
That you appear not to have challenged VeriSign's motivation in virtually eliminating
competition in the .org space and forcing .org name holders to reregister and rebrand
in another TLD for which they will collect a registry fee is a matter of grave concern.
Andrew
Moulden
andrew@moulden.ORG