Hi, am an MBA student at NYU Sterns School of Business. My analysis of the entire
scheme of proposals for new TLD's find: 1) ICANN's decision to enlarge the
TLD space is a good and timely one.
2) ICANN should strive for a structured
development that does not infringe on the rights of rightful owners of IP and provides
for and aides in growth of economies world over. Decisions by ICANN on
this major undertaking is of great importance.
3) Easy access to internet for individuals
and their ability to utilize the medium to its fullest potential are fundamental
to the growth of the internet in the next phase.
4) Any organized sector, corporations
and institutions will use the internet for their benefit, irrespective of the developments
takes place in this area, due to their easy access to capital, resources, and
influence; individuals on the other hand, stands alone, as is the case almost
always. Therefore, a cheerleader has to be found to champion the individual's
cause.
As a technology and management professional, I find that cheer-leader in
the .i proposal of Sarnoff Corporation. Not only does the proposal propagates aggregation
techniques at a domain name level for individuals, it definitely enhance the internet
as a medium and how internet will be used in the future. It will help in the
healthy growth of internet by being inclusive and above all help to reduce the digital
divide(it was very thoughtful to propose providing free digital id's to people through
numeric domain names).
I strongly urge ICANN to consider Sarnoff's proposal for
granting .i or .iii TLD. This will be one of the strongest links in
the long chain of the internet.
Sameer Pareek