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By In an interview, ICANN Chair Steve Crocker said that there would be no delay or restriction of the new gTLD programme.
Steve Crocker [said that the ICANN] Board will be holding a special meeting in the first week of January and that the meeting's focus will be the launch of the new gTLD program the following week. But that meeting will not consider either a delay or a limited rollout, he stated.
Asked specifically about widespread calls for a "pilot program" that would feature only a limited number of Internet extensions, Crocker noted that the organization had already run pilot programs for expanding the top level of the Internet and argued that "we haven't seen anything to suggest there would be value in delaying the launch."
A highly organized campaign by lobbyists against new gTLDs, begun after the new gTLD programme was approved, has brought letters from U.S. politicians urging delay, or a limited roll-out of new gTLDs.
Meanwhile defenders of the multi-stakeholder governance model have vehemently opposed interference with ICANN's policy development processes. Milton Mueller of the Internet Governance Project said in an recent :
ICANN's plan to open up the domain name space to new top level domains is scheduled to begin January 12, 2012. This long overdue implementation is the result of an open process that began in 2006. It would, in fact, be more realistic to say that the decision has been in the works… since early 1997. That is when demand for new top-level domain names… made it clear that a new institutional framework had to be created. ICANN was the progressive and innovative U.S. response to that need. It was created to become a nongovernmental, independent, truly global and representative policy development authority.
Now there is a cynical, illegitimate last-second push by a few corporate interests in the United States to derail that process. The arguments put forward by these interests are not new; they are the same anti-new TLD arguments that have been made since 1997, and the concerns expressed are all addressed in one way or another by the policies ICANN has developed. What is new is that U.S. corporate trademark interests are openly admitting that their participation in the ICANN process has been in bad faith all along.
To its everlasting credit, the U.S. Commerce Department, the official governmental contractor and supervisor of ICANN, has not caved in to the cynical corporate obstructionism. They realize what is at stake.
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