Hi Amr,
Thanks for this share....first i will say its interesting how long it has
taken since board made the decision. That said, i find the text below quite
concerning:
The GAC advises the ICANN Board to re-categorize the string .doctor as
> falling within Category 1 safeguard advice addressing highly regulated
> sectors,therefore ascribing these domains exclusively to legitimate
> medical practitioners.
>
> With respect to the additional advice in the Buenos Aires Communiqué on
> the Category 1 Safeguards, the NGPC accepts the advice to re-categorize the
> string .doctor as falling within Category 1 safeguard advice addressing
> highly regulated sectors and ensure that the domains in the *.doctor TLD
> are ascribed exclusively to legitimate medical practitioners*.
Hopefully the chain of decision making would be adequately addressed within
the ccwg
Regards
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Amr Elsadr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Revisiting this thread again one more time.
>
> The NGPC resolution referred to in the reconsideration request was dated
> February 2014, not February 2015. I misread that in the reconsideration
> request submitted by Brice Trail, LLC. So the actual resolution by the
> ICANN board (or actually, the NGPC on behalf of the board) on .doctor can
> be found here:
>
>
> https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2014-02-05-en
>
> …, as well as an annex to the resolution with more details found here:
>
>
> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-new-gtld-annex-1-05feb14-en.pdf
>
> I hope this helps clear up the confusion I had a hand in creating. ICANN
> policy staff was very helpful in correcting me on this. Thanks Mary.
>
> Thanks, and my apologies.
>
> Amr
>
> On Mar 25, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> For those who missed it, there is the letter to the Board from Brice
> Trail, LLC, the applicant for the .DOCTOR gTLD.
> Here (again) is the reference (March 12, 2015) on the ICANN webserver,
> plus the first paragraph of the letter:
>
>
> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-request-15-3-brice-trail-llc-redacted-12mar15-en.pdf
>
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>
> Sam L.
>
>
> On 25/03/2015 8:25 AM, Amr Elsadr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Coming back to this thread, there was an expression to see references to
> the ICANN Board’s decisions on this topic. From what I can tell there was a
> discussion on the topic of “Category 1 Safeguards for Highly Regulated
> Strings” on the February 5th meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee
> (NGPC) of the ICANN Board. It looks like there was no resolution taken
> during that meeting (
> https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2015-02-05-en
> ).
>
> However, there was a reference to that meeting in another meeting that
> took place on February 12th, in which the NGPC seemed to agree on *“**staff
> to continue to move forward with implementation of its 5 February 2014
> resolution on the matter**”*. (
> https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/prelim-report-new-gtld-2015-02-12-en
> )
>
> I’m not sure what resolution was being referred to, as the report of the
> February 5th meeting indicated that there were no resolutions taken.
>
> I’ll provide any updated info I come across.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Amr
>
>
>
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