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<BODY>Milton<br/><br/>This has often been the case in telco land - the view of the "end users" can be more objective if broadly and evidence based to use policy jargon<br/><br/>Especially on the big "separation" debates<br/><br/>And so it can be very useful for those making policy decisions as a balance to the clear commercial incentives of other participants in the debate<br/><br/>I find this with ACCAN and ATUG in Australia<br/><br/>And with INTUG at APECTEL and OECD<br/><br/>Cheers<br/><br/>Rosemary<p>Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus</p><hr/><div><b>From: </b> "Milton L Mueller" <mueller@SYR.EDU>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:01:08 +1100</div><div><b>To: </b><NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU></div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: Proposed NCUC position on registry-registrar joint marketing on new TLDs</div><div><br/></div>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>After some more discussions, I think we might need to work something into this statement about special conditions related to the dominance of the registrar market.<BR>
If a registrar holds more than 50% of the registrations in gTLDs we might not want it to be subject to some of the more liberalized conditions proposed in the statement.<BR>
Here is another situation in which NCUC can contribute to a more rational dialogue: all the registries are afraid to talk about GoDaddy, which holds a very large part of the market in gTLDs, for fear of alienating their channel to the customer. I think we are in a position to talk about this rather objectively and without bias.<BR>
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From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Milton L Mueller [mueller@SYR.EDU]<BR>
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:16 AM<BR>
To: NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<BR>
Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Proposed NCUC position on registry-registrar joint marketing on new TLDs<BR>
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Dear members:<BR>
Here is my first draft of a proposed position statement on the controversial "separation" issue. I have run this by our Council members and Executive Committee; while few of them have had time to discuss in detail I don't think there are major objections; at any rate it is open for discussion now and we need to get a position out because the rest of the GNSO is looking to us to come up with a position not prejudiced by commercial interest.<BR>
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