[At-Large] Affecting ICANN policy on new gTLDs

Hong Xue hongxueipr at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 23:49:44 UTC 2010


Hi, I'm in, though still jetlagged.

Hong




On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>wrote:

> Count me in -
>
> Dev Anand Teelucksingh
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > ICANN has not yet started accepting applications for new gTLDs. To its
> > credit, at its meeting in Cartagena the ICANN Board has been convinced of
> > the seriousness of certain remaining issues enough to delay the launch of
> > the new round despite severe pressure from potential applicants and
> ICANN's
> > own contracted parties.
> >
> > However, the onus is now back upon us and others who took issue with the
> > proposed creation procedures. We have made it clear what we did not like,
> in
> > issues such as the Independent Objector (IO), the Dispute Resolution
> Service
> > Provider (DRSP), and the regressive changes to in trademark-related
> takedown
> > notices. Now we need to propose what we *do* want, simply and directly.
> >
> > This means, specifically, that we need to create specific wording changes
> to
> > the new TLD Applicant Guidebook. The goal is to offer to the Board a
> > ready-made set of changes that have:
> >
> >   - Community approval as broad as possible
> >   - Wording that modifies the existing DAG as little as possible while
> >   still accomplishing our goals
> >   - Full consistency with existing GNSO policy and existing CWG consensus
> >   (on both Rec6 and applicant support)
> >
> > If we are able to do this, we will have presented both a vision for our
> > approach to new gTLDs and a fully-charted method of execution. Doing so
> will
> > enable us to take initiative, providing a constructive way forward for
> the
> > Board to speed TLD introduction.
> >
> > This is a significant task. Without enough people to share the load this
> > can't happen ... and if it doesn't, we will have nobody to blame but
> > ourselves for missing this opportunity to get our policy goals across.
> >
> > If you are interested in helping with the background research or the
> > 'wordsmithing' of changes to the Applicant Guidebook, please let me know
> as
> > soon as possible.
> >
> > --
> > Evan Leibovitch
> > Chair, At-Large gTLD Working Group
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