[At-Large] Guide to creating response to new gTLD workbook

Joe Baptista baptista at publicroot.org
Tue Dec 16 20:01:06 EST 2008


Jeff - the one thing I learned from the HEX over in Europe is that your
going to have criminals involved in the name space.  So expect pirates to
show.

cheers
joe baptista

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
> wrote:

> Beau and all,
>
>  Well the list of restrictions you list below lets Google and Yahoo out.
> That's a good thing from my point of view.  It may soon disallow
> Yale University out as well.  That would be a shame, but necessary.
> Also Microsoft would be banned as well.  Oh yes, and BTW, given
> Karl's successful legal action regarding ICANN's questionable fiduciary
> misconduct, ICANN itself would also not qualify...  Hummm?  Now
> how is that going to be rectified?
>
>
> "Brendler, Beau" wrote:
>
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Several people worked on this since Cairo, so rather than holding on to
> it any longer I wanted to send it out to a broad group. It's a sort of guide
> to creating a draft document response to the new gTLD workbook. Only a
> guide! It's meant to be read in conjunction with the document itself to
> suggest areas in which the user community might want to elaborate (or not).
> For it to be most useful you still need the workbook document handy. For
> instance, there are things we've since discussed on various lists that
> aren't in this guide, for instance, from Danny:
> >
> > "Working one's way through module 2 (the Applicant Information Form
> section), there is one question that is glaringly missing:
> > "Indicate whether (i) the applicant or any of its (ii) officers, (iii)
> directors, or (iv) managers:
> > a. within the past ten years, has been convicted of a felony or of a
> misdemeanor related to financial activities, or has been judged by a court
> to have committed fraud or breach of fiduciary duty, or has been the subject
> of a judicial determination that is similar or related to any of these;
> > b. within the past ten years, has been disciplined by the government of
> its, her, or his domicile for conduct involving dishonesty or misuse of
> funds of others;
> > c. is currently involved in any judicial or regulatory proceeding that
> could result in a conviction, judgment, determination, or discipline of the
> type specified in (a) or (b); or
> > d. is the subject of a disqualification imposed by ICANN and in effect at
> the time of this application.
> >
> > So, for instance, we should decide where we want to put that in.
> >
> > In addition to some of the NCUC comments I have sent out over the last 24
> hours or so, here are some URLs of others' perspectives on new gTLDs.
> >
> > International Olympic Committee:
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/pdf2Skbh839Jy.pdf
> > Registry Constituency:
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/docnZV8Xn1mmo.doc
> > IDN Comment: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00055.html
> > Robin Gross: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00034.html
> > Wendy Chan: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00043.html
> > Unicode Technical Committee:
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00021.html
> > Ron Andruff: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-string/msg00001.html
> >
> > After the call on Friday, I would like to propose a time for the working
> group to meet and discuss its responses to the attached document, to the
> discussion on the lists, and other matters, so that we can work up a
> statement by the deadline, which I believe has now been extended to Jan. 7
> (we will clarify this in Friday's meeting).
> >
> > Staff, may I ask that you translate this message into French and Spanish
> and distribute it so that we can get maximum community involvement.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Beau Brendler
> >
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