[ALAC] Fwd: ALAC Statement to the Board Regarding Security and Stability Implications of New gTLDs

[JJS]

*Dear Olivier,*
*
*
*thank you. Quick remarks:*
*
*
*- It's not a good idea to single out the fact that a paper has been
approved "by the ALAC Executive Committee". Putting forward a part of the
ALAC, for whatever reason, weakens the cohesiveness of our Advisory
Committee, or at least projects such an image.*
*
*
*- The tone of the letter is satisfactory. The strength of a statement
comes more from brevity and clarity, than from resorting to descriptions of
emotion.*
*
*
*Best regards,*
*Jean-Jacques.*


2013/6/11 Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>

> Dear ALAC members,
>
> as you know, the ALAC has recently voted to ratify the "ALAC Statement
> to the Board Regarding Security an Stability Implications of New gTLDs".
> Prior to sending this to the ICANN Chair of the Board as well as the
> Chair of the New gTLD Program Committee, ICANN has made an announcement
> regarding "Security Studies on the Use of Non-Delegated TLDs, and
> Dotless Names":
> https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-28may13-en.htm
>
> With our Statement in hand, I took the opportunity of asking Julie
> Hammer about the opportunity to have a strongly worded cover letter
> accompany the ALAC Statement to be sent to the Chairs mentioned above.
> At the end of last week, I have worked in haste with the Executive
> Committee as well as our ALAC Liaison to the SSAC, to draft such a
> letter and with time being of the essence, since our Statement was
> completed a week earlier, I have sent the Statement plus the strong
> Cover Letter to the Board Chair, New gTLD Programme Committee Chair,
> copying the GAC Chair, the ICANN CEO, the SSAC Chair and the ATRT2 Chair.
>
> If you believe that we should send an even stronger message, I offer
> that the ALAC could decide to use parts of the cover letter to generate
> another ALAC Statement. So far, I have not received a reply from the
> Board but it is early days to judge response, considering the importance
> of the message conveyed. May I suggest to see what kind of response we
> receive to our earlier Statement prior to issuing another Statement?
>
> Having been unavailable over the week end, I apologise for the time it
> took me to forward this to you but in the interest of transparency it is
> important that you are aware of this concern and of the fact that we are
> pushing hard to make sure the message is understood and taken into
> account by ICANN. The Security and Stability of the Internet's domain
> name identifiers is of utmost importance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
> ALAC Chair
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        ALAC Statement to the Board Regarding Security and
> Stability
> Implications of New gTLDs
> Date:   Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:38:26 +0200
> From:   Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> To:     Steve Crocker <steve@*.com>, Cherine Chalaby <cherine@*.co.uk>
> CC:     Heather.Dryden Dryden <Heather.Dryden@*.*.ca>, Fadi Chehade
> <fadi.chehade@*.org>, Patrik Fältström <patrik@*.se>, Brian Cute
> <bcute@*.org>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@*.com>, ICANN AtLarge
> Staff <staff@*.*.org>
>
>
>
> Dear Steve,
> Dear Cherine,
>
> please be so kind to find attached:
>
> - a "correspondence" which raises several points which I am sending you
> with the support of the ALAC Executive Committee;
> - an ALAC Statement to the Board Regarding Security and Stability
> Implications of New gTLDs which should be shared with the Board
>
> The correspondence serves as a cover letter to the ALAC Statement.
>
> In the absence of an actual open public comment process at this point in
> time, the ALAC is submitting this Statement directly to you, in line
> with its ability to submit its Advice to the Board at any time. The
> issue raised in this Statement is of high priority and we therefore look
> forward to a response from the ICANN Board on the Matter.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
> ALAC Chair
>
>
>
>
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