"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Where is the community consensus that the GAC should be a part of all
> this?
> 2) Why is working group C asked to decide "how many tlds and what names" ?
> That sounds like a loaded question just waiting for the answer to be read
> from the IAHC script.
You might as well ask "Where is the community consensus that NTIA should
recognize ICANN, instead of the individuals who maintain and use the
Internet?"
> For reference, here are the top names poeple have chosen on the right
> hand side of a hyphen in a .com name. Surely this is some indication
> of what poeple want, as opposed to what some committe of people with
> vested interests think is right.
Maybe. It is hard to say, because from the list we cannot determine
what the criteria were for selecting these names in the first place.
If you were to survey those registrants, and ask them if would register
their sites in rhs of the hyphen TLDs, you might get more of an idea.
IMHO, of course.
--gregbo
