On April 9, 2014 11:01:19 PM Amr Elsadr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks McTim,
>
> Substantively, I agree with you and I sympathise with the registries
> that have .brand applications. On the other hand, I am concerned with >gTLD 
> policy being developed by the ICANN board purely from a
>process perspective. I would argue on that point out of principle. The
>idea of the ICANN board developing policy is not one that I relish.

IIRC, the application guidebook provides the applicants
an avenue for requesting for exemptions from some of the
specifications.  Specification 13 looks like an embodiment
of an exemption sought by a specific group. So this isn't really
developing a new policy.

Like McTim I find it very strange why .Brands would need to
use registrars at all.  Another is why they would need to escrow their
data.  After all, a closed brand's registrants are all units of the
brand. If the registry fails, it is the brand which suffers, not an innocent
3rd party which needs protection from ICANN




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