ICANN's President Paul Twomey has declared that ICANN's new gTLD policy is "on track."

The claim reminds me of the way that Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq back in 2003.

I mean, to summarily declare you're "on track" in 2007, for a 2008 launch, is to ignore the White Paper, ignore the 1999-2000 DNSO process, the 2000 "test bed," the 2000-02 review of the "test bed," the .TRAVEL supplement to the "test bed," and even the Board's own resolution from just last year asking for the process to be to the Board by 1 January 2007.

It would be one thing to say that ICANN is "pushing as fast as it can," "making up for lost time," "trying to correct the mistakes of the past," or, you know, just anything with a ring of truth to it, but it really does a disservice to ICANN to play us all for fools by not even acknowledging that this process is at least five years overdue.

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