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Just days after my little blast at ICANN for being too slow about deciding things and not communicating well enough about those things that do get decided, ICANN has come up with a great new idea called a "briefing note".

The first is available right now on the ICANN website and gives an extremely useful overview of the major topics that were discussed at the New Delhi meeting. The usual ICANN jargon is deciphered and for each topic, a "next steps" item describes exactly that: what can be expected to happen next.

For example, for the introduction of new gTLDs which was the topic I based my previous rant on, we are told that "ICANN expects to start accepting bids for specific names at the end of 2008 at the earliest."

Clear, concise, and to the point. All I can say is well done ICANN, I stand corrected!