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 On Mar 18, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > All, > > I too would like to know the source of this. I did not reference it in my comments. But true or not the overall problem exists. > I am focused on the overall problem, which should have been clear at the start of the new-gTLD program. > I had already written about the overall problem in my blog on .health several months ago. > > Sam > > On 18/03/2015 2:37 PM, Amr Elsadr wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Seun Ojedeji <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> On 18/03/2015 7:56 AM, Timothe Litt wrote: >>>> Doctor, doctor give me the news: >>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/15/icann_doctors/ >>>> Sigh. >>> What I do not understand is why ICANN could not see these problems coming from the start. >>> >>> >>> Before i add a strong +1 to this, i quote the intro of the article below: >>> >>> Domain-name overseer ICANN has decided that only one kind of doctor may be allowed online – and that is a medical doctor. In a decision made late last month. >>> >>> Could someone kindly refer me to where i can find that decision statement? >> >> I did a quick search on recent board resolutions, and actually couldn’t find anything. In fact, according to the published activity of the ICANN board, this was discussed during a meeting on February 12th, but no resolution seems to have been taken. >> >> https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2015-02-12-en >> >> I would also like to see a resolution and rationale on this. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Amr > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------ > "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured > in an unjust state" -Confucius > ------------------------------------------------ > Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) > Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 > email: [log in to unmask] Skype: slanfranco > blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com > Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852