James Love wrote: > From: Jonathan Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wgc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've asked Ken Stubbs for NC guidance on this > > point, but I haven't gotten a response. Ken Stubbs is the chairman of the executive committee of CORE, which is presently being sued for having infringed upon IODesign's .WEB TLD by attempting to trademark it illicitly in Switzerland; and has had a formal complaint made against its illicit incorporation, without registration, as a non-profit entity in that country. Is this the sort of person that a fair-minded working group on new TLDs should go to for "guidance"? > > I'd like us to return to this matter, and reach some resolution, > > so that we can report to the NC well in advance of April 20 > > that we either do or don't endorse a version of these principles. What will the proposers of new TLDs like .union do when the NC or the Board or both simply ignore the so-called Sheppard/Kleiman principles and grant, first CORE, and then other ICANN-friendly registries/registrars, the TLDs they want? > > To that end, I'd like people > > who have something to contribute on these issues to speak up now, so > > that we can figure out where we stand More useful would be for the Board and the Names Council to tell the working groups what the NC's commitment is to implementing the WGs' recommendations, so that the people involved in the WGs will have some idea of whether they are wasting their time or not. > > I'd be grateful if each of the position-paper authors could > > send me a short summary (no more than a paragraph or two) of the > > scenario for deploying new gTLDs contemplated in that author's > > position paper, so that I can collate > > them and transmit the resulting short paper to the NC. In other words, the NC can't even be bothered to study the proposals. I guess that answers the previous question. ============================================================ Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927 ============================================================
