Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt

[Suzanne Woolf <[e-mail]>]

(No hat)
On Mar 14, 2014, at 10:33 PM, Tim Wicinsku <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> On Mar 14, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:38:14PM +0000,
>>> Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> wrote
>>> a message of 39 lines which said:
>>> 
>>>> Which is why I think that some of this involves us[0] talking to
>>>> ICANN and explaining the reason / purpose for ALT, and playing nice.
>>> 
>>> OK, so we just have to find people who accept to devote the next N
>>> years of their life to a boring and unrewarding task, full of meetings
>>> and thick reports, with lawyers and politicians. You've found someone?
>>> :-)
>> 
>> Well, I go to all the ICANN meetings already, so...
>> 
> 
> And successfully defended a challenge from my employer's legal department to send me to ICANN. While I consider it a win though I think as WG chair I may need to go if it would help resolve this issue 

No need for anything rash. Several DNSOP regulars are already sentenced to ICANN meetings, including myself. And given that ICANN does not currently have any mechanism for even entertaining a new TLD application of any kind, there's little point in going to an ICANN meeting to lobby for one. 

Let's do our own homework on this, first. I think TIm and I owe the group an attempt at a summary of the discussion we had in London and on the mailing list, and possible ways forward.


Suzanne