[EURO-Discuss] New gTLDs Working Group Formation

Jacqueline A. Morris jam at jacquelinemorris.com
Fri Oct 12 15:33:00 EDT 2007


Dear At Large

The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) has released a summary  of
the report on the Introduction of new top level domains for the At-Large
community's consideration and use at the GNSO's New gTLD Workshop at the
ICANN Los Angeles meeting on Monday, 29 October 2007.

This document is meant to provide a concise and easy to read summary of the
key elements of the Report, and is organized to correspond with the Workshop
sessions. At-Large participants (such as the TTCS) are encouraged to
consider the summary, and the Report, and submit questions in advance that
they would like the Workshop panelists to address on the 29th.

The At Large is creating a short term working group to discuss and generate
comments for input into the process and transmission to the Board of ICANN.
The Working Group  will work via a mailing list, and interested persons can
subscribe to this list at 
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-liaison_atlarge-lists.i
cann.org

The timeframe for the working group is short, with a deadline of October
25th. A suggested work plan drawn up by a member of the WG is below. You can
see that the work will be intense, but it is very important.

1) Timeframe of ad-hoc WG:  ends on Thursday 25 Oct.
(2) Links to reference documents are provided
(3) The 20 GNSO new gTLD recommendations are cited
(4) WG members will each draft comments on whatever issues they might have
with certain recommendations
(5) Initial comments due by 22 October
(6) First draft of Final Document (incorporating all comments) by 23 October
(7) Final Document by 25 October
(8) ALAC reviews WG effort in LA and provides Statement to accompany the
Final Document for transmission to the ICANN board.

I hope that you will participate as this is a very important issue, with
serious ramifications for the future direction of the Internet, and vitally
important to individual users.

Below please find links to the relevant documents related to the
Introduction of New Top Level Domains. We will also shortly be creating a
wiki workspace for the working group, but in the meantime, you can find
information on the GNSO Liaison wiki page at
https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?gnso_liaison. 


Additional documents:

Recent  public comments submitted by the community on the Introduction of
new Top Level Domains

http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtldfinalreport-2007/


The summary of the report on the Introduction of new Top Level Domains :
http://ttcsweb.pbwiki.com/f/New+gtlds+workshop+document.pdf (PDF ; 191K)
(Thanks to the TTCS, one of our Caribbean ALSes for hosting the pdf)

The Actual Report on the Introduction of new Top Level Domains is available
in two parts :

Part A - 
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm

Part B - 
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-partb-01aug07.htm

(As soon as other languages are available, we'll post the links)

Please participate!

Sincerely
Jacqueline A. Morris
ALAC Chair

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