Reducing trademark abuse and other Internet ills by empowering communities
We appreciate the opportunity to present comments to ICANN's Implementation Recommendation Team. The attached 15-page paper -- complete with tables and screenshots -- makes the case that the new Draft Applicant Guidebook should reduce the score necessary to achieve community status for a new TLD. While the paper does not directly address the recommendations made by the IRT team, it does suggest a more practical -- and less litigious -- method for achieving much of what the IRT seeks to accomplish, by making it easier for communities to police their own spaces according to the values of that community. Respectfully submitted, Antony Van Couvering CEO, Minds + Machines Attachment:
Minds + Machines Community Scoring Whitepaper - May 22 2009.pdf |