It's not entirely different, but those were the rules everyone was playing by then. So in that sense it's very different. We haven't agreed to these new rules yet. I don't think we should. Hopefully that's not too subtle.
The rules are clearly laid out now. The difference is that you need to be able to pay real money to play now. Some of that is greed and some is practical. You need to limit the applicants to organizations with the financial wherewithal to be able to provide the stability needed (that said they do have some kind of program for less financially worth non-profits).
"I don't think we should."
To late for this now. The time to do that was many years ago when comments were invited and there were meetings etc.
By the way there are many parts to the ICANN process that are exclusionary. To get to one of their meetings you have to be able to afford to get in an airplane and fly to an exotic (and sometimes) unsafe location. Nothing fair about that. But that is the way things are (in Washington as well).
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It's not entirely different, but those were the rules everyone was playing by then. So in that sense it's very different. We haven't agreed to these new rules yet. I don't think we should. Hopefully that's not too subtle.
"We haven't agreed to these new rules yet."
Who's "we" sucka?
(Sorry - see 2:17 in on the following had to crack a rare joke):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXDzsuqXFg
"the rules everyone was playing by then"
The rules are clearly laid out now. The difference is that you need to be able to pay real money to play now. Some of that is greed and some is practical. You need to limit the applicants to organizations with the financial wherewithal to be able to provide the stability needed (that said they do have some kind of program for less financially worth non-profits).
"I don't think we should."
To late for this now. The time to do that was many years ago when comments were invited and there were meetings etc.
By the way there are many parts to the ICANN process that are exclusionary. To get to one of their meetings you have to be able to afford to get in an airplane and fly to an exotic (and sometimes) unsafe location. Nothing fair about that. But that is the way things are (in Washington as well).
> You need to limit the applicants to organizations with the financial wherewithal to be able to provide the stability needed
Right, like Sun, Netscape, Digital Equipment Corporation, Silicon Graphics, GM, Lehman Brothers, etc.
If any industry should know that "financial wherewithall" != stability, it's the technology industry.
We as in the users of the Internet.
Meanwhile the gTLD director resigned yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4147181
What about a kid who was born in 1997 and who is now turning 15? They didn't get a chance to play by the same rules as you did.