[council] FW: the topic of new gTLDs and the role of gNSO Council
Bret Fausett
bfausett at internet.law.pro
Wed Jul 27 18:19:47 UTC 2005
Avri,
As background, in 1999-2000, the GNSO (then called the DNSO) created a
working group to examine the new TLD issues. Recommendations from the
working group were presented to the Council, and we voted in favor of
the following resolution:
The Names Council...recommends to the ICANN Board that it establish
a policy for the introduction of new gTLDs in a measured and
responsible manner, giving due regard in the implementation of that
policy to (a) promoting orderly registration of names during the
initial phases; (b) minimizing the use of gTLDs to carry out
infringements of intellectual property rights; and (c) recognizing
the need for ensuring user confidence in the technical operation of
the new TLD and the DNS as a whole.
Because there is no recent experience in introducing new gTLDs, we
recommend to the Board that a limited number of new top-level
domains be introduced initially and that the future introduction of
additional top-level domains be done only after careful evaluation
of the initial introduction.
http://www.icann.org/yokohama/new-tld-topic.htm#18/19April2000NCStatement
The ICANN Board adopted the Names Council's recommendations in the
following resolution:
Resolved [00.46] that the Board hereby adopts the Names Council's
recommendation that a policy be established for the introduction of
new TLDs in a measured and responsible manner.
http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-16jul00.htm
In accord with the Names Council's recommendations in Paragraph 2 of the
above statement of policy, ICANN approved the creation of seven new TLDs
in November, 2000 (.INFO, .BIZ, .NAME, .PRO, .MUSEUM, .COOP, and .AERO).
And, again as requested by the Names Council policy recommendation,
ICANN commissioned a study of the initial introduction
(http://icann.org/tlds/new-gtld-eval-31aug04.pdf).
That pretty much brings us up to date.
Bret
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