[NA-Discuss] gTLD objections -- the story so far

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I hope you are not indicating that therefore NARALO and EURALO viewpoints are irrelevant we should just go along with the others? I hope whatever viewpoint NA/EURALO come up with will be considered by the ALAC.

avri

On 6 Mar 2013, at 16:21, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> According to the defined process, if THREE of the five regions support an
> objection put forward by Dev's Review Group, that objection gets elevated
> to ALAC for a vote.
> 
> Right now, five objections are being considered -- four for the Latin
> string ".health" and a fifth based on a Chinese-script IDN variant of
> ".health" (that could also be read as ".healthy")
> 
> Some other RALOs have already given their direction.
> 
>   - LACRALO has formally advanced all five.
>   - APRALO and AFRALO have advanced the four Latin ones but not the IDN one
>   - EURALO and NARALO have not povided direction.
> 
> 
> What this means is that:
> 
>   - The objections against the four Latin strings will be advanced to ALAC
>   regardless of what NARALO and EURALO do
>   - The IDN string can only be advanced if *both* EURALO and NARALO choose
>   to do so.
> 
> 
> Now the debate constinues, as the ALAC must now (at least) consider the
> four remaining objections. I have been following the discussion here to
> date and will continue to use the discussion to help determine how to vote,
> At the beginning of this debate I was truly undecided, so I am prepared to
> vote in accordance with my reading of the region's preference.
> 
> - Evan
> 
> 
> - Evan
> 
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