It is the position of Image Online Design, Inc. that the refusal to
admit prospective registries to the gTLD constituency, the very
group formed to represent its interests, constitutes a deliberate
attempt to exclude prospective registries from participation in
the DNSO. Policy decisions reached by the DNSO relating to
new registries, without the direct participation of prospective
new registries in their capacity therein are questionable, at best,
and most likely actionable by the excluded businesses.
The results, therefore, are constrained to a very narrow set
of possibilities. While it's obviously not too late to change this
situation, action is currently being taken as a result.
Christopher Ambler
