[council] Re: [gtld-com] Suggestions regarding the gtld report
Bruce:
Thanks for your contribution, it contributes substantially to
the committee's progress.
I have read your suggestions carefully. There are still a few
sentences in the beginning of the report that I believe to be confusing
or extraneous. If they are removed your draft is an acceptable
compromise.
Paragraph 3:
Please delete the first sentence: "Indeed all participants
had in some measure or other a vision of how the gTLD namespace
should look." That sentence contributes little of substance and
is simply untrue. I myself do NOT have any vision of how the
namespace should "look." Nor do I see any indication that several
other constituencies do. If you do not delete this sentence
you could replace "all" with "some."
Paragraph 2:
I would prefer to just delete paragraph 2 in its entirety. The meaning
of the phrase "structure the evolution of the generic top level
namespace" was clear from Lynn's October 2002 statement
and from the extensive discussion of the issue that took
place at the Amsterdam Dec. 2002 meeting. The Board wants
to know whether we support "taxonomic rationalization."
I do not know what to make of the statement in Paragraph 2
that "Others saw no conflict between the concept of a taxonomy
and a bottom-up, demand–driven system." I do not recall
any such expressions from the gTLD Committee's deliberations,
and I do not think such a position is coherent. There IS a
conflict; one either works from a taxonomy with predefined
categories, or one permits bottom-up, applicant-driven evolution.
If anyone doubts this I invite them to look up the definition of the
word "taxonomy" in any dictionary.
At any rate, if we did not understand the meaning of the
question the Board asked us, we should have bounced it back
to them for clarification before answering it. We do no one any
good by raising doubt about what question we are answering. I
believe that we substantially reduce the value of the report and
fail to fulfill our policy development role if we muddy the waters in
such a fashion.
>>> "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/21/03 08:07AM >>>