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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Would the same issue arise if each entity was limited to one application each?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Though I tend to agree with your idea of “weighting” as being more useful and less likely to be either “gamed” or simply circumvented<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org
[mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael D. Palage<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 2, 2015 5:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Tijani BEN JEMAA'; avri@acm.org; gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Fwd: RE: [] Comments to the Executive Summary and gTLD Matrix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Not to sound like a lawyer, but here goes. Attempting to restrict the number of applications an applicant can file is fraught with significant anti-trust
considerations and is really a non-starter. Or more simply stated there is no way Joe Simms would sign-off on this limitation, especially if ICANN achieves its independent from the USG in the near future.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think the more constructive (and viable) approach is to focus on the weighing of community applications and potential alternate resolution option
in connection with contention sets. This is where I think ICANN really missed the mark in connection with this round with a number of community / community like applications being held hostage or eliminated by deep pocket portfolio applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This imbalance in ICANN’s most current round is something that I foreshadowed over 4 years ago, see
<a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_gtld_auctions_and_potential_unintended_consequences/">
http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_gtld_auctions_and_potential_unintended_consequences/</a> I would appreciate if anyone things a part of the solution to our problems, can be found in my article from over 4 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">
<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org">mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tijani BEN JEMAA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 1, 2015 2:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>; <a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org">
gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Fwd: RE: [] Comments to the Executive Summary and gTLD Matrix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Avri,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">GENERAL THOUGHT ON GTLD NEW ROUND</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">1. Put a ceiling to the applications submitted by a single group (group and not company, because we have seen Afilias and M & M using subsidiaries or other signposts...</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This because the slate applications create war machines where the economy of scale makes irrelevant if not convenient to use all degrees of possibles claims just to filibustering competitors; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Agree</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">2. Create for community based applications</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">some simple rules as was made for geo names. The clarity and simplicity of the rules for geo names, discourage the vultures (not all of them) to apply for geo names when the appropriate
legal entities applied. The unclarity of the rules for the other non-geo communities pushed many gTLD to defy community based similar strings. In most of the case they were right in doing so.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For instance for sector where exist associations recognized at regional level (such as .bank, insurance, lawyers, etc.) this give a legitimacy as a community, even if such associations
don't exist in all continents.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For "political" and "civil liberties" associations the criteria of geographic coverage need to be lifted and adapted to existing situation. Asking. Gay to be supported in countries where
still homosexuality is a crime is an evident nonsense. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">While I agree with you, I find it not enough for 2 reasons:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">For poor community, we don’t have only to protect their right of having their own string, but we need to find the right way to support
them in their application, exactly like we must do for applications from developing economies (think of the Tamil community who want to have their string to promote their language and their culture)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Community based applications were not assessed against clear and objective criteria. The mechanism by which the assessment was made
should be reviewed. Sure, there should be guaranties that the process will not be gamed, but there must be guaranties that the assessment will be done in a fair and objective manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">3. Clear criteria to create positive discrimination for developing countries and poorer regions of the world
</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Any application that is expression or get support from LDC and underdeveloped regions need to receive an incentive and a priority. If this will not happen, even the next round will be
characterized by a predominance of the western applicants. Of course the support have to be expressed by real and existing bodies, not from mirror entities of multinationals or local offices of Western companies…. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">There was proposals for dedicating the upcoming round for developing economies and poor communities. I think it was a fair proposal because the competition between those applicants
and the northern one can’t be fair because they don’t have the same tools. It is a kind of positive discrimination<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">If not a dedicated round, I would propose specific conditions and rules for developing economies and poor communities, for example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">Since the program development cost was recovered, I think that this kind of application should be free of charge (remember that we was told when we were fighting for lowering the application
fee for the first round: “they have to wait for the upcoming round when we will recover the program developing cost”).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">An accompanying support program should be developed to help these applicants at all levels (we need to work on it deeply)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">4. Clear rules against filibustering</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Norms need to be issued to prevent the abuse of dominant position. Those that make opposition without solid ground and multiple opposition to any competitor and that
loose the claims need to be penalized. For instance imposing a growing deposits of sums in case of multiple oppositions that will be lost in case of defeat.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">At the moment to go into RfR, CEP, IRP cost a fortune only to those that don’t have a permanent staff of lawyers under contract. For these latter, at a marginal cost,
they could blackmail everybody oppose them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Agree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">5. Protections for the weaker subjects in case of dispute</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Because of the disparity of forces, it is absolutely unfair to have disputes opposing self-funded voluntary based organization (such as .gay) to DOT.companies. ICANN
needs to set aside a fund or a group of experts to assists the weaker subjects when they have to oppose this kind of adversary. A sort of asymmetric treatment need be established: lesser fees, no deposit, and other measure to ensure equality of chances also
to the poorer and farer from Californians beaches… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Agree</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">6. Clear rules to preserve democracy within ICANN</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Having accepted that 3 companies specialized in DOT.economy could apply for hundreds of TLDs risk to have a longlasting effects on the democratic process within ICANN.
How to prevent that the Big 3 or 5 take over the whole gNSO constituency (achieving a practical possibility of veto of any decisions of ICANN they dislike or that could hamper their interests ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Absolutely</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION ON CPE</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">A. The attribution of the points is very much questionable and too much left to the discretion of the evaluators;</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">B. The selection of the body in charge of the CPE needs to be made taking in account the specificity of the scope. Ask the EIU to judge about community is like asking a carnivore to judge
about the best vegetarian dish.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If the scope is to evaluate
</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">communities, then ICANN has to ask to association on NGOS or of Charity funds or to UN bodies in
charge of humanitarian issues, because they can understand the representativity of the applicants, its relations with the territorial entities, and so on;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">C. the minimum score of 14 points out of sixteen is a total nonsense. There is no reason to have such a high score to be recognized as a community. The natural suspect
is that the bar has been put so high to boycott the community applicants and to keep them out of the door.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">D. The decisions about the future TLD’s round concerning communities need to be established in partnership with the community TLDs. Their interest cannot be represented
by RySG that is mainly populated by people that pursue a totally different scope: to make money out of it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">E. The impossibility to contact the evaluator has left grey areas where mistakes could happen. We had no possibility to verify who (among the supporting organizations) has been called
and who was not. There was no way to communicate changes of names (the responsible people change within democratically elected bodies) of the person to contact within the supporting organizations. ICANN has to create a special task force that could act as
go between the future EIU and the applicants</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">F. Has to be made clear if the evaluator has to verify EACH letter of support (as it seems from the guidelines) or if it can go only checking some samplers…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">I agree on all your points about the specific consideration on CPE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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