[NA-Discuss] On the exchange of notes between Peter and Heather -- city names
Eric Brunner-Williams
ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Thu Nov 25 20:02:43 UTC 2010
Dear North American Regional At Large Colleagues,
I'm preparing a personal comment, reflecting my thoughts on the issue
of city names, to submit before my term as the Unaffiliated NARALO
Member Representative begins at the close of the 2010 ICANN AGM in
Cartagena.
Broadly, I think each of the rationals Peter offers for declining to
explore changes from the DAGv4 (now DAGv5) protections is flawed, and
I think limiting the GAC's interest in distinguishing urban public
administrations from private parties to delegation agreements to mere
string protection is also flawed.
Naturally, given the complexity of the issues, and my own prolixity,
it will take me several pages to present my thoughts to Peter and Heather.
I am aware of gTLD projects in the North American Region concerned
with Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Miami, Portland (Oregon),
Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and smaller numbers of gTLD
projects similarly concerned with urban areas in Europe, Asia, South
America, and Asia - Pacific.
The public comments period for the current version of the DAG closes
on December 10th, at 7am Eastern, 4am Pacific, just before the Friday
Board meeting that week, and the beginning of my term as the
Unaffiliated NARALO Member Representative at the close of that Board
meeting.
Eric Brunner-Williams
Ithaca, New York
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