<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div>Continuing the introduction thread, my SOI at <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Rubens+Kuhl+SOI">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Rubens+Kuhl+SOI</a> seems current, but in short I oversee new gTLD efforts of the .br ccTLD registry that for the 2012 round was both an applicant and a registry service provider for other applicants. <div><br></div><div>Some topics come to my mind for the next round (or continuing process):</div><div>- Whether post-contracting requests like exclusive use (Spec 9), brand TLD (Spec 13) or closed generic request should be moved to application time, in order to give both applicants and competitors for a string clarity on whether they can or cannot operate the TLD as they wish</div><div>- Whether exclusive use TLDs should have requirements such as SRS/EPP/WHOIS/Escrow/EBERO instead of simple root delegation (although I think diverse DNS should still be a requirement, but that's probably part of the discussion)</div><div>- String similarity criteria</div><div>- String confusion standing to object that in the 2012 round was limited to TLD operators and applicants, to possibly be granted to other interested parties (like registrants of a TLD, ALAC etc.) </div><div>- Change requests versus community evaluation and objection processing</div><div>- Clear and defined clarification questions process</div><div>- Clear and defined draw process (possibly bundled with application process)</div><div>- Whether to introduce or not meaning similarity criteria like singular/plural</div><div>- Whether to allow single-character IDN TLDs (notably for scripts other than Latin and Cyrillic)</div><div>- Whether to allow variant TLDs (like .saopaulo and .sãopaulo) with required (or not) bundling rules, including variants of the at the time existing TLDs</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Em 27/07/2014, à(s) 00:55:000, Thomas Lowenhaupt <<a href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com">toml@communisphere.com</a>> escreveu:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<meta charset="utf-8"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By
way of introduction…</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve
been involved with ICANN in different capacities since 1998:
governance issues, new TLDs, now ALAC.</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
2005, to support the acquisition of the .nyc TLD as a public
interest resource, I started the not-for-profit Connecting.nyc
Inc. Currently I serve on the Mayor’s .NYC Community Advisory
Board with a role in reviewing our city’s plans for its TLD. </span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why
Am I Interested In This Working Group?</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Section
1.2.2 of the 2012 Applicant Guidebook required city-TLD
applicants to include a Letter of Non-Objection with their
application:</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“If
an applicant has applied for a gTLD string that is a geographic
name (as defined in this guidebook), the applicant is required
to submit documentation of support for or nonobjection to its
application from the relevant governments or public
authorities.”</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having
closely followed the acquisition and development process for the
.nyc TLD since 2001, I’ve concluded that the Non-objection
standard is inadequate.</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
hope to convince the Working Group that the application process
for city-TLDs be changed; that applications for city-TLDs
include an indication of Informed Consent rather than
Non-Objection.</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Best,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom
Lowenhaupt</span>
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