On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Scott Francis <darkuncle@gmail.com> wrote a message of 32 lines which said:
what problem is ICANN trying to solve with this proposal? What about the current system that's broken, does this new system fix?
ICANN is simply responding to demand. Some people want to create a TLD. The existence of a TLD is not a problem for the other TLDs. If the new TLD is stupid or useless (like ".aero" or ".pro"), it will fail. So what? That's the normal life of projects. Why ICANN should evaluate the new TLD applications, apart from some simple technical checks? If something is wanted and causes no harm for the others, then why in hell ICANN should refuse it? I did not suspect that the idea of central regulation of business, with a state-like committee examining business ideas and allowing them or not, was an idea so popular among Nanog members :-)