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In mid-July Miriam Sapiro and Summit Strategies
International submitted a report "Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal
Issues". This report was part of the New gTLD evaluation process, overseen by
Sebastien Bachollet.
Have the ICANN staff and Board published this
report anywhere on the ICANN website? Is it in the public domain? For the sake
of openness and transparency (and to benefit informed participation by all
constituencies) is it going to be published?
According to the presentation given in Kuala Lumpur
on 22nd July 2004, the report had already been submitted to ICANN and included
(among others) these findings:
The Start-Up periods of registries like .info and
.biz were reported as "raising concerns". "The Sunrise period, without screening
or verification, led to serious abuses." It added that "the landrush allocation
methods enabled gaming of the system".
"Interviews raised questions about enforcement" in
implementing registration restrictions in .biz. And data sampling brought to
light "questionable registrations" in relation to the restrictions that were
supposed to be in place.
"The Registries indicated there had been no major
lawsuits" or legal or regulatory problems "that had not been considered at the
outset". (I find this statement quite surprising in the context of
.biz)
Please could we have access to Miriam Sapiro's
report?
Yrs,
Richard
Henderson |