<html><body><div>Happy to support Olivier's request. Olivier, I'm sure you and Jonathn can, between you, come up with a form of words thaat works</div><div><br /></div><div>Holly<br /></div>
<br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Carlton Samuels" <carlton.samuels@gmail.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl@gih.com><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div>"Jonathan Zuck" <jzuck@actonline.org>, "ALAC Working List" <ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 06:29:26 -0500<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [ALAC] URGENT: Supplementary Comment on .O release<br /><br /><br /><div><div>FWIW, I find Olivier's comment perfectly reasonable and supportable; auctions to establish who gets the string with no reserve price.<div><br /></div>
<div>We cannot know or guess every fo...., well business plan out there. Let's disavow prior restraint here. The positional principle ought to be for maximizing the take by fair and transparent means and use those windfall proceeds to help advance the agenda to which ICANN and the community are severally committed.</div>
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<div>Let's opt to help our friends and neighbours who would wish to spend big money on a string do so efficiently and help some others too. Because as we say in my neck of the woods when Eskimos have too much money they buy [a] [re]fridge[ator].</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 28 Jun 2018, 12:40 am Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, <<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com">ocl@gih.com</a>> wrote:<br /></div>
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Dear Alan,<br /><br />
given that a follow-up statement with "corrections" was posted to
the public comment forum after I informed you of the matter below
and given the fact that my comment was not taken into account, I
hereby ask you again to have this statement amended as per below.<br /><br />
Should this Statement be ratified as such, it will leave me with no
option than to write directly to the Public Comment Forum, to issue
a rebuttal that I disassociate myself from this Statement.<br />
Kindest regards,<br /><br />
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD<br />
(in my personal capacity)<br /><br /><div class="m_9028192159087213626moz-cite-prefix">On 24/06/2018 00:41, Olivier MJ
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Dear Alan,<br /><br />
thanks for this. I do think that the updated statement is a lot
more complete than version 1.<br />
I note a couple of references being made of past statements by
people who then became At-Large members, both dating from 2007.
Whilst I cannot comment on Avri's Statement, I would like to
emphasize that my Statement then was in the context of gTLDs and
the then dynamics in 2007. The comparison to 3G licenses is
probably way out of line now, since we now have thousands of new
gTLDs thus we are looking at the premium "worth" of a gTLD now
that is likely to be lower than when the choice of gTLD was
limited to legacy gTLDs.<br /><br />
I have already received some negative feedback about this quote
from people who interpreted my 2007 email as being a call for
ICANN to set a minimum price tag for these domains, much like some
of the price tags that were given to 3G spectrum auctions. With
the changing times and landscape, my opinion is that we should
support an auction process, we should support it for its proceeds
to fund a non profit but there is no need for ICANN to set a
minimum (or reserve) price.<br /><br />
Could this, or a summary of this explanation (or clarification)
please be included in the Statement to explain the context of my
2007 comment and soften it to align it with the current reality
that there are now thousands of gTLDs? I do not want the wrong
message to be retained by the reader of such a message - and
definitely do not want this single opinion that is now more than
10 years told, to overshadow the clear messages we wish to convey
in the ALAC's Statement.<br />
Kindest regards,<br /><br />
Olivier<br /><br /><br /><div class="m_9028192159087213626moz-cite-prefix">On 20/06/2018 16:07, Alan Greenberg
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light of other comments posted, Jonathan has suggested that we
issue a supplemental comment making it clear that we beleive
that the auction proceeds must go to charities that support the
public good and the Internet Community. Moreover, the TLD must
actually be used and not acquired for speculation/resale. <br /><br />
I strongly suggest that we post this comment and ratify after
the fact. <br /><br />
Is there any strong opposition to this? <br /><br />
Alan <br /><br />
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