IP: Re: ICANN announces 10 new top level domain name finalists

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:30:16 -0500
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> From: Alan Davidson <abd () cdt org>
> Subject: Re: IP: ICANN announces 10 new top level domain name finalists
> Cc: farber () cis upenn edu
>
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> > > Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:00:09 -0500
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> > > From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> > >
> > > [Wow. I think I started writing about this process back in 1996, and 
> > > we're finally seeing it come close to a (temporary) end. Now let's see 
> > > if the Clinton administration agrees to add 'em. :) --Declan]
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40228,00.html
> > >
> > >  ICANN: The Winners Are ...
> > >  by Oscar S. Cisneros
> > >
> > >  2:00 p.m. Nov. 16, 2000 PST
> > >  MARINA DEL REY, California -- The number of new top level domains that
> > >  will be used on the World Wide Web was narrowed from 44 to 10 on
> > >  Thursday.
>
> Declan,
>
> This story talks about ten new TLDs when in fact ICANN only picked *seven* 
> finalists.  I was at the raucous and historic LA meeting, and here is the 
> relevant passage from the resolution that ICANN passed yesterday:
>
>
> From http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/new-tld-res.html
>
> RESOLVED [00.___], the Board selects the following proposals for 
> negotiations toward appropriate agreements between ICANN and the registry
> operator or sponsoring organization, or both:  JVTeam (.biz), Afilias 
> (.info), Global Name Registry (.name), RegistryPro (.pro), MDMA (.museum), SITA
> (.aero), NCBA (.coop);
>
>
> There were many complaints about which TLDs ICANN selected and the process 
> it used to do so (including the fact that five newly elected At-Large 
> board members could not take part in the decision.) Yet it certainly is a 
> welcome step to have a set of diverse additions to the congested gTLD 
> space. ICANN is changing the landscape of cyberspace -- all the more 
> reason why it needs to do more to ensure that the broad range of affected 
> stakeholders have a voice in its decisions (and that the now-threatened 
> nine At-Large Director seats need to be preserved.)
>
> Best,
>
> Alan
>
> [I know this story was written while ICANN was in the midst of its final 
> deliberation, but the headline and its continued circulation are a bit 
> misleading.]
>
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