Thanks for circulating this Robin. I am with you - it is the moon plus something more. For the trademark issues, most of these I have addressed in my personal blog posting (also submitted to CircleId) - "A Fairness 'scorecard' for trademark protection under the new gTLDs), available here: http://www.circleid.com/posts/a_fairness_scorecard_for_trademark_protection_under_the_new_gtlds/ and here http://www.komaitis.org/1/post/2011/02/a-fairness-scorecard-for-trademark-protection-under-the-new-gtlds.html If NCUC/NCSG agrees, I can always tweak it and submit it on our behalf. Thanks KK Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis, Law Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law University of Strathclyde, The Law School, Graham Hills building, 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA UK tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306 http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765 Selected publications: http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038 Website: www.komaitis.org -----Original Message----- From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robin Gross Sent: 24 February 2011 03:16 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Everybody wants to rule the world - especially the GAC GAC has released its "scorecard" on the new tld program. They only ask for the moon. A total re-write of the multi-stakeholder bottom-up consensus policy for new tlds. http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23feb11-en.htm How are we coming on our response on these issues? Are they ready to be submitted? Thanks, Robin IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]