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<br><br><em><font face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive" color="#0000ff" size="4"><strong>Marilyn S. Cade</strong></font></em><br>
<strong><em><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="#0000ff" size="4"></font></em></strong><br><font face="Arial Black, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"><em><strong><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">202 360 1196</font> <font face="Tahoma,Helvetica,Sans-Serif">or 202 251 6787</font></font></strong></em></font><br>
<strong><em><font face="Tahoma"><a href="mailto:mscade@att.net"><font color="#000000">mscade@att.net</font></a><font color="#000000"> or </font><a href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com"><font color="#000000">marilynscade@hotmail.com</font></a></font></em></strong><br><br><br>I am reading the "expression of Interest' materials, that Mike Palage thoughtfully forwarded to the BC list. <div><br></div><div>While in general, I can see the merit of such a working group, it needs to be open to participation by representatives of the CSG -- and those representatives need to be carefully chosen from members who are not engaged in, consulting with, nor representing parties with an interest in applying for a new gTLD. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>When a member develops a change in status and becomes affiliated with registry applicants, that change then becomes a significant change and creates a conflict of interest that needs to be disclosed to the BC members.</div><div><br></div><div>Frankly, I fully appreciate that it is getting very difficult to find business representatives who are indeed business users -- and not either consulting with registry applicants, or considering the issue of becoming a 'brands' registry if they are a global brand. I am interested in identifying a few global brands representatives within the BC to develop a paragraph for the Charter that might be shared with members to see if we can carefully craft a category/'guidance' on when a global brand holder becomes a registry, and how they might still quality to be a BC member. Since most global brands -- IF they become a registry--will do so as an internally focused service -- their needs and roles will be very different from a market facing registry. </div><div><br></div><div>We don't want to blow the BC up over the evolution of change in the development of new gTLDs; but we need to have some respect for the unique role of business users, or we really aren't adhering to the purpose, and intent of the existence of the BC. </div><div><br></div><div>Still, for now, our charter [and the DRAFT Charter ] has certain requirements. </div><div><br></div><div>So, three requests:</div><div><br></div><div>1) all BC members who are now in a different status need to declare their interests, and that needs to be disclosed to the BC members. </div><div>2) This group needs to be open to BC members who are not applicants, or consulting or advising applicants, beyond a single member</div><div>3) The changes in the Charter that I proposed, and others supported are still pending. Many of our members -- Ayesha, Zahid, David Fares, Liesyl/Anders, Heather, myself, Steve, and possibly more -- will be leaving early to mid week for the IGF, which will take us totally out of commission for work on the Charter for several days. </div><div><br></div><div>Mikey and I had offered to work with Philip to complete drafting. That offer stands, with the realistic perspective that I'm one of the IGF'ers. </div><div><br></div><div>Marilyn </div><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: michael@palage.com<br>To: bc-gnso@icann.org<br>Subject: [bc-gnso] New gTLD Expression of Interest Working Group<br>Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:12:49 -0500<br><br>
<title>Re: [bc-gnso] FW: [gnso-sti] Common Grounds Paper</title>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Hello All:</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Could the BC leadership please update the membership on this
proposed Working Group for Expressions of Interests in connection with new
gTLDs. </span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">It appears that Minds + Machines and other “TLD
promoters” have proposed a Working Group for new gTLD Expressions of
Interest. While I have no objection to the creation of such a working
group, the proposal to limit participation to an apparent self-interested group
is rather concerning. Hopefully the new Council, and our elected
representatives will make sure that this Working Group is open to all that wish
to participate.</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-06nov09-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-06nov09-en.pdf</a>
(Doc #1)</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-draft-charter-06nov09-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-draft-charter-06nov09-en.pdf</a>
(Doc #2)</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-proposed-outputs-06nov09-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/correspondence/eoiwg-to-icann-proposed-outputs-06nov09-en.pdf</a>
(Doc #3)</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">I am concerned that the BC
will only have one representative (See Doc #2), and this self-selected group
appears to have reached out unilaterally to Susan Kawaguchi. While I think
Susan would provide an excellent participant I think all interested
members from the Commercial Stakeholder Group should be able to participate.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Best regards,</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Michael Palage</span></p>
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