Back to the Future: ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, CSIS Keynote, 2012 video

Back to the Future: ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom CSIS Keynote Speech, 10 Jan 2012

CSIS Keynote Speech by Rod Beckstrom, CEO of ICANN in 2012- The Future of the Internet - Who Decides? | 10 Jan 2012 - Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) keynote speech - The Future of the Internet - Who Decides? | 10 Jan 2012--Rod Beckstrom: Some new gTLDs will fail--

Transcript of portion of speech, time marked:
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30:37now some people ask it and they say  are these new gTLDs going to be
30:41successful
30:43or how many are gonna fail of course you know how you define
30:47success and how you define failure I and certainly
30:51who will decide? Users of the world will decide
30:55Organizations will decide what succeeds and what's not successful
30:59ICANN's concern is not about the individual
31:03business marketing or organizational usage success of a top-level domain
31:08it's that the global Internet domain name system be secure
31:12and stable and reliable and that's what the checks are in for the system
31:16and in the community cares about protecting rights holders such as
31:19trademarks
31:20 so we'll see some successes, we will see some failures

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