On the subject of earlier agreements, it is clear that
ICANN
must make good on IANA's earlier commitments.
If IOD can
demonstrate their ability to act as a registration
authority,
then they should become registrars in the .org/.com/.net
domains first The absolute best way would
be for ICANN to put a registration
freeze on new registrations
on new .web registrations, for IOD
to ceceed the trademark
to ICANN, just as the InterNic mark was
ceceeded from NSI,
and set an opening day for registrations.
No company
should exclusively execute gTDLs. Upon that day,
all
registrars would proceed exactly as they have for .org,
.com
and .net. Early registration would be grounds for
immediate suspension of the registrar's participation.
Only sites approved by IANA for evaluation should be permitted
to submit their existing records to the new domains. They must
be told to freeze registrations until they are, potentially
some time in the future, chartered. Pre-registration
speculators and the 'registrars' that play to that market must
be granted the respect they deserve... none whatsoever.