<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good evening:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Whatever domain names may have become, I think that the vast expansion - in the past and perhaps to come - has been mainly at the second level.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the top level, I still have serious misgivings:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The sudden, large expansion following the previous round has resulted in a significant proportion of Registries that are not financially viable, </div><div class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at least on a stand-alone basis. (c.f. ‘vertical' integration) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>we still lack market research by ICANN as to the business scope for introducing even more new TLDs. </div><div class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Both in terms of the aggregate DNS market and in terms of the macro-economic context.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I am sensitive to warnings about how many and how quickly changes to the Root can be relied upon to maintain stability and security. I defer to RSSAC among others</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I would love to live in a DNS world where a TLD would represent <<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">significance or memorability to a small community, locality or even a family> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I would be on for that! But last time I looked, the costs and risks associated with creating a new TLD Registry are way beyond small communities</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">resources</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">.</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ICANN <i class="">oblige.</i> </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Just a few thoughts</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">CW</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">(</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Speaking</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> personally, of course.)</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class=""></span></font><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Feb 2018, at 17:20, Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com" class="">jeff.neuman@comlaude.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Completely personal opinion here, but I think that comment from the RSSAC is a “red herring” meaning that it ignores the rationale for new TLDs. The RSSAC is looking at the notion of domain names as only being for the original purposes in which they were intended: Namely to create more memorable representations of network resources, because it was perceived to be too difficult to remember IP Addresses.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">What it ignores is that the use of domain names, whether at the top or the second level, has evolved into being used for many other purposes than purely that for which it was originally designed. As stated by John Klensin in IETF RFC 3467 (2003), <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Consolas;" class="">“The DNS was designed to identify network resources. Although there was speculation about including, e.g., personal names and email addresses, it was not designed primarily to identify people, brands, etc. At the same time, the system was designed with the flexibility to accommodate new data types and structures, both through the addition of new record types to the initial "INternet" class, and, potentially, through the introduction of new classes.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Despite not being designed for these purposes, that is what has evolved. Domains are now used to identify computers, machines, organizations, people, places and things. Whether used for commercial or non-commercial purposes, they identify brands, people, geographic locations and things to their relevant user base. That user base may be global, national, local or even familial. A domain may be used for web traffic, machine-machine communication, e-mail or a host of other potential applications. It is up to the owner of the domain name (Or TLD) to make its intended user base aware of its existence. The significance of the domain is then ascertained and judged by the user base and not those outside of its intended user base. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The RSSAC is asking an existential policy question of the GNSO community. One that has no right or wrong answer and one which has no clearly ascertainable answer. The answer to the question will differ to every person that attempts to answer it. There is no way to measure the global significance or memorability of any particular namespace. There is no purely scientific way to answer that question. And even if there was, why would it be limited to “library and cognitive science.” Why not look at it from an Anthropological, Economical, Educational, Historical, Linguistic, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Sociological, Sustainability or other type of social science perspective?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">My personal view is that regardless of the global significance or memorability of a namespace, that namespace may have significance or memorability to a small community, locality or even a family. It may not even be used in the traditional sense and not intended to have any memorability by any persons or groups, but may only be significant to other machines. One of the things discussed at Namescon last week was a venture that Donuts has invested in which is working on using a TLD Namespace for a Geographical mapping tool to map the entire world down to the centimeter. If it does use the TLD namespace to do this, then there may or may not need to be any memorability of the namespace to any human so long as devices knew how to find the appropriate location.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Sorry for the long e-mail and I will get off my soapbox, but I am not a huge fan of spending any more time on that question given that in my opinion it misses the point and relevance of what domains (and TLDs) have become. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 147, 71);" class="">Jeffrey J. 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padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Aikman-Scalese, Anne [<a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, February 2, 2018 1:15 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">jeff.neuman@comlaude.com</a>>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt4@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt4@icann.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Fwd: New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG: Request for Input<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I think the following point made by the RSSAC is very significant and certainly deserves further discussion.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Using concepts from the disciplines of library and cognitive science, what number of TLDs results in their loss of memorability and significance?<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hard to balance this with freedom of expression goal, but it should be given more consideration. In addition, the marketplace trend is toward apps – not more websites.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Anne<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="336" valign="top" style="width: 3.5in; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(175, 39, 47);" class="">Anne E. 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font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gnso-newgtld-wg [<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Jeff Neuman<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, February 02, 2018 7:05 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt4@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt4@icann.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Gnso-newgtld-wg] Fwd: New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG: Request for Input<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Just in from the RSSAC. We will add the questions asked of us to the appropriate Work Tracks. Although some of the, may naturally fit in Work Track 4, others may be overall questions to the Working Group.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">If you have any thoughts on responses, please do not hesitate to weigh in and we will start keeping track on a Google Doc. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Jeffrey J. Neuman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Senior Vice President <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Com Laude USA / Valideus USA<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">1751 Pinnacle Dr., Suite 600<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">McLean, VA 22102<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:Jeff.Neuman@comlaude.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Jeff.Neuman@comlaude.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">+1 (202) 549-5079<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class="">Begin forwarded message:<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Steve Sheng <<a href="mailto:steve.sheng@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">steve.sheng@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>February 2, 2018 at 8:49:36 AM EST<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">jeff.neuman@comlaude.com</a>>, avri doria <<a href="mailto:avri@apc.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">avri@apc.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rubens Kuhl <<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">rubensk@nic.br</a>>, Cheryl Langdon-Orr <<a href="mailto:langdonorr@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">langdonorr@gmail.com</a>>, Emily Barabas <<a href="mailto:emily.barabas@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">emily.barabas@icann.org</a>>, Steve Chan <<a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">steve.chan@icann.org</a>>, Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:rssac@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">rssac@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:rssac@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">rssac@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Re: New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG: Request for Input<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Dear Jeff and Avri,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Per your request on 14 September 2017, attached please find RSSAC’s response on root scaling.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">In addition to its formal advice, the RSSAC raises the following questions for the wider community (including GNSO) to consider. These questions go beyond the specifics of operations of DNS, the IANA functions, and the root server system, to broader issues of the costs and benefits of aggressive expansion of the root zone:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Independent of expanding the commercial buoyancy of the DNS industry, how does the addition of many thousands of new gTLDs to the root zone make the Internet better for the people who use it, aside from the addition of IDNs for language and culture?<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Using concepts from the disciplines of library and cognitive science, what number of TLDs results in their loss of memorability and significance?<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Is adding a significantly large number of TLDs (e.g., more than 100,000) to the root zone, and presumably augmenting the business interests in the addressing system, a sustainable model for the DNS? At what point might this model fail. What next steps for naming system innovation are required, and when?<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Best Regards</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Steve Sheng on behalf of</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Tripti Sinha and Brad Verd</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Co-Chairs, Root Server System Advisory Committee</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><hr size="4" width="100%" align="center" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: gray;" class=""><br class="">This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. 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