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Dear all,<br>
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further to discussions about the Public Interest, please be so kind
to find a response from the Chair of the ICANN Board to the Chair of
the GNSO concerning a query about Exclusive Registry Access for gTLD
Strings Representing Generic Terms.<br>
As a reminder, when the ALAC discussed the Public Interest with the
ICANN Board at the Marrakech meeting, Bruce Tonkin, Board member,
responded with a vision of the Public Interest mission of ICANN that
was purely technical in terms of making sure Domain Names resolved
to the proper IP addresses. During the ALT meeting with the ICANN
Board Chair, the ICANN Board Chair responded that this was not quite
correct and provided some language that broadened the use of the
term "The Public Interest" which was more aligned to the ALAC's view
that all actions that ICANN took needed to take into account the
Public Interest. (I'll have to read the transcripts back for the
exact wording)<br>
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In the attached letter, the Chair of the ICANN Board quotes
Paragraph 3 of the Articles of Incorporation - so that's a very
technical baseline. He then explains the current status of
information collection from the ICANN research on the global public
interest framework. But nothing more so far.<br>
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I would like to take this up with the Public Interest working group
- but would appreciate your feedback first.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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<td>[council] Updated [Correspondence] Steve Crocker to
James Bladel re:GNSO Query on Public Interest and
Exclusive Registry Access for gTLDs</td>
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<td>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:16:08 +0000</td>
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<td>Glen de Saint Géry <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Glen@icann.org"><Glen@icann.org></a></td>
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<td>GNSO Council List (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org"><council@gnso.icann.org></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Please find the updated correspondence Steve
Crocker to James Bladel re: GNSO Query on Public Interest
and Exclusive Registry Access for gTLDs.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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lang="EN-US">This updated version has one very
</span><span
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lang="EN-US">minor edit in the last sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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lang="EN-US">Apologies for the inconvenience of double
posting.<br>
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lang="EN-US">Thank you.</span><span
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