Re:

[Jean-Michel Hannoun <hannoun@xxxxxxx>]

On 11 Jan 2010, at 14:43, Jean-Michel Hannoun wrote:

> Dear ICANN Board Members
>
>
> As you weigh the pros and cons of the the staff EOI recommendation,  
> I would like to remind you why you are doing this in the first  
> place. The over-arching reason, as far as I can see, is to protect  
> the public interest.
> So what is this public interest?
>
> Well let's start with what it is not.
>
> It is not, to begin with a situation where one company, Verisign,  
> controls 50% of the world domain names - about 80% of all english  
> language names - and routinely increases prices by 7% a year, even  
> in the worst recession since the great depression.
> It is not a world where non-english countries are given at most two  
> meaningful domain names to choose from, a 2 letter country code, and  
> soon (for some countries) the IDN country name.
> It is not a process which is dominated by a few dozen brand lawyers,  
> and the entrenched interests of registries and domain speculators  
> who stand to lose if the status quo changes.
> No. What is in the public interest should be very clear to everyone.  
> It's increased choice in the domain name space.
> As an outsider to this process, I hear issues such as 2 character  
> IDN's and Vertical Separation as obstacles moving forward. Forgive  
> me, but these strike me as insider technicalities. For ICANN to hold  
> this process up even 1 week for either of these issues is  
> preposterous at this point.
> The EOI proposal makes sense. TLDs make sense.
>
> ICANN - get to work.
>
> Regards
>
> Jean-Michel Hannoun