[LAC-Discuss] Draft of New gTLD Evaluation Process

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear All:

We shall indeed get a translation of the PowerPoint.

Even better though, I can inform you that the briefing will be held 
again in Paris, on Sunday, for all who are present at the ICANN meeting.

There will be simultaneous interpretation of that session in French and 
Spanish, and full audio recordings of both languages too.  I feel sure 
that all the issues such as those mentioned by Carlton will be 
thoroughly explored during the question and answer session. All of the 
recordings will be available afterwards for those unable to attend the 
Paris meeting in person.

Carlton Samuels wrote:
> Dear All:
> Due to a scheduling conflict with the job that pays my keep, I belatedly
> joined the New gTLD Evaluation Process briefing via teleconference.  Since I
> only came at the tail end, someone may have sought clarification on the
> matter of the four criteria for objections to a gTLD string, namely Sting
> Confusion, Infringement of Rights, Morality and Public Order, Community
> Objection.  The draft also states that the gTLD string can be objected on
> any combination of the four criteria at the same time.
>
> I have requested and the At-Large Secretariat is committed to producing a
> Spanish-language translation as soon as practical.
>
> Singly or severally, they ring alarm bells. So while the translation is
> being worked, I shall raise a few concerns for your consideration while they
> are fresh in my mind.
>
> First, if "Morality and Public Order" is accepted as a criterion for
> successful objection to a gTLD string, it would have finally removed the
> very last fig leaf from ICANN's tattered denial of a political construct to
> its mandate and work. Because since it is widely indoctrinated that morality
> - your sense of right and wrong - is the stuff of religion, it raises the
> question as to whose morality becomes the yardstick.  Rest assured the
> yardstick will certainly not be that of the mosque. But quite frankly, the
> competing morality - and ascendant one, in the sense of the existing power
> equation - is equally objectionable to me. I still have an old edition of
> the Book of Common Prayer where deliverance from "the perfidious Jew and
> infidel Turk" is penitently requested.
>
> Secondly, it is almost certain that a criterion such as "Infringement of
> Rights" would relegate minority rights to an 'also-ran' position, especially
> with regard to representation of these persons in ICANN councils.
>
> I will end by repeating a mantra that should be familiar to those who know
> me. Any man that cannot decide for himself what to read, who to associate
> with and most importantly, what to think, is a slave.  Since I am the ONLY
> qualified person to determine what I may think, read and associate, I am
> unalterably opposed to any notion that a tribunal can determine what is
> moral for me.
>
> When the time comes, I shall vote "NAY" and against this process, as
> defined.
>
> Carlton
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> Carlton A. Samuels
> UWI ALS/LACRALO Secretariat
>
> Email: carlton.samuels at uwimona.edu.jm
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