Dear All,

Please see the below report from the Cross-Community Working Group on  
Recommendation #6 dealing with objections to new gtlds based on  
"morality and public order".

Should the board accept the recommendations of the group, it would  
help to remove a number of concerns we had with MAPO since it went  
through the GNSO (like free expression).  While I personally do not  
think ICANN has any role to play regarding 'morality & public order",  
and I don't agree with every recommendation in this report, it is a  
significant movement in the right direction of curtailing the abuse  
of MAPO-type objections to new tlds.  So it is an improvement to what  
is currently in DAG4 on MAPO.

NCSG should prepare and file comments on this report to the board.  I  
think we have 30 days from today to get those comments in.  If we've  
got any volunteers to work on group comments, please speak up!!!    
Thank you!

Best,
Robin


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Gomes, Chuck" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: September 21, 2010 3:58:32 PM PDT
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [soac-mapo] Fw: Report on Implementation of GNSO New GTLD  
> Recommendation #6
>
> FYI
>
> Chuck
>
>
> From: David Olive [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 06:29 PM
> To: Secretary <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: Gomes, Chuck; Cheryl Langdon-Orr <[log in to unmask]>;  
> [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>;  
> [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>; Kurt Pritz  
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Report on Implementation of GNSO New GTLD Recommendation #6
>
> Dear ICANN Secretary:
>
> This Board Communication is sent at the request of Chuck Gomes,  
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr and Heather Dryden,  on behalf of the  
> Recommendation 6 Community Working Group (Rec 6 CWG).
>
> This Report published on 21 September 2010 from the New gTLD  
> Recommendation #6 Cross-Community Working Group (“Rec6 CWG”)  
> addresses implementation of the GNSO Council’s New gTLD  
> Recommendation # 6 (Rec6).   This Report describes recommendations  
> for improving the proposed implementation plan for Rec6 as  
> described in the Draft Applicant Guidebook-v4.
>
> There is consensus among the members of the Rec6 CWG that the  
> proposed implementation model for Rec6 is flawed in certain  
> respects and can be improved. The Rec6 CWG believes that the  
> recommendations described in this Report, as summarized in Section  
> 3 of this Report, and described in detail in Annex 3, would improve  
> the implementation of Rec6.
>
> We kindly request that this Report be included in the materials for  
> the Board’s consideration at the retreat.
>
> Thank you for your consideration of this request.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> David A. Olive
> Vice President, Policy Development Support
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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