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[Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com>]

Alejandro Bonet wants to start offering a new TLD ".ibu" related to
his universal basic income project.

I would like to move discussion of the project here, and ask him to
start over with his proposal because we're now splitting discussion
across the dns-operations and discuss mailing lists.

Alejandro: Please reply to this thread with your proposal. I suggest
the following format:

Describe the TLD
 * Describe yourself, your co-operators, and your universal basic
income project in  one paragraph.
 * Tell us who you want to provide .ibu domains to, and what you will
help them do by providing them with those domains.
2.) Tell us the basic rules for .ibu domains. For example:
 * Are they free?
 * Do users own domains forever once registered, or do they expire?
 * Can users register more than one .ibu domain?
 * If one user wants an .ibu domain, but it's already taken, can they
take it from the existing user? What if the existing user isn't
"using" it or the new user has a "better" idea for the domain's usage?
3.) Tell us what .ibu domains you will not host, and tell us any
situations in which an .ibu domain will be taken away from the user.
For example:
 * Can users register .ibu domains that include trademarks?
 * Will you take away a user's .ibu domain if they point it to a
website or service that creates legal liability for DNS administrators
in Spain where you and your co-operators are based?
 * Will you take away a user's .ibu domain if they point it to a
website or service that does not create legal liability, but may
result in complaints directed towards you and your co-operators?
 * Will you take away a user's .ibu domain if they point it to a
website or service that does not create legal liability, but may
result your universal basic income project looking bad?
4.) Outline democratic procedures for dispute resolution. You must
have these according to the OpenNIC charter. For example:
 * How can users appeal a decision made by the operators of the .ibu
zone? Typically this is done through a democratically elected
administrator or a direct majority vote. There are many other options.

I believe if you answered those questions, you would have written a
valid charter.

Once you submit your charter, a discussion period of no less than 7
days will begin. After those 7 days anyone can move to vote, and if
someone does the community will have 7 days to vote yes or no on your
proposal.

That means if you present an unsatisfactory proposal, and two weeks
later no one has discussed or voted on it, your proposal was not
approved. Likewise, if you submit a proposal and people don't like it,
and it takes you longer than two weeks to make the majority of them
like it, your proposal will also not get approved. You NEED to present
a quality proposal that people like for it to get approved, that's the
way democracy works.