[fwd] Re: [ga] PLEASE COMMENT: Suggested ALAC response to sTLD RFP (from: froomkin@law.miami.edu)

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From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:16:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [ga] PLEASE COMMENT: Suggested ALAC response to sTLD RFP
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Actually, the document is considerably better than one usually gets from
ICANN-affiliated bodies.

Whether or not the authors of this paper are legitimate/properly
selected/wonderful/powermad/whatever, they seem to have produced a pretty
sensible paper.

If I could make one suggestion, it is that it might be worth mentining
that the only reason we don't have an in-hand 'evaluation' of the existing
'experiment' of new gTLDs is that ICANN

-refused to define criteria for 'success' or 'failure' ex ante

- sat on the data, disabling others from trying to report anything

- hasn't done anything that suggests its about to report anything
meaningful

It's not the fault of the new gTLDs, the applicants, or the public -- and
they shouldn't be penalized.


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