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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I believe what is being discussed is the Neustar proposal regarding “windows” in the next round. In this regard, views of participants are relevant and a second public comment period on a limited number of important
issues is highly likely given that (1) there was no Consensus Call prior to the issuance of the Initial Report and (2) There was no discussion by the full Working Group of all the issues raised in all the Work Tracks that resulted in the questions published
with the Initial Report. In fact, Leadership promised that the Initial Report would not be prejudicial to a discussion of the issues by the full WG. It was on that basis that WG members agreed to drop the PDP requirement of a Consensus Call prior to the issuance
of an Initial Report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Considering “organizational mandate”, I will venture the opinion (once again and as raised in the Barcelona meeting at the mike in a GNSO meeting) that the GNSO itself is not charged with acting in the “global
public interest” except to the extent its PDP procedures provide for fair consideration of all points of view expressed in the PDP Working Group. (In this regard, I believe Minority Statements play a very important role in that process.) GNSO consists of
stakeholders and constituencies representing various interests. I personally believe the group that has been closest to supposedly providing input to the GNSO in relation to the “global public interest” is the ALAC, but the ALAC does not have a vote on GNSO
Council (oddly). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The GAC’s realm is “public policy”. So it seems to me that only the ICANN Board has responsibility for acting in the Global Public Interest when adopting policy, albeit within the limited scope of the ICANN
Mission. I believe the current ByLaws provide a reference to “global public interest” as follows in (ii) below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">If someone can point me to some language in the PDP Manual that incorporates a requirement for GNSO itself to determine and act in the Global Public Interest, I would very much appreciate it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Some definition work was previously done on this but this was prior to the most recent Accountability work. As I understand it, the old work resulted in the following draft, which was never formally adopted:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>“ICANN defines the global public interest in relation to the Internet as ensuring the Internet becomes, and continues to be, stable, inclusive, and accessible across the globe so that all may enjoy the benefits of a single and open Internet.
In addressing its public responsibility, ICANN must build trust in the Internet and its governance ecosystem.”<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Anne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Cc:</b> Aikman-Scalese, Anne <AAikman@lrrc.com>; gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN 64 Kobe, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry, I now note this is on the broader list. If this hasn't already been discussed in the Initial Report, is it appropriate to open such a broad discussion now? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:06 AM Mike Rodenbaugh <<a href="mailto:mike@rodenbaugh.com">mike@rodenbaugh.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes it would be awesome to define ICANN's and the GAC's 'public interest' thoroughly and completely, at least with respect to the newTLD program. That has always been the white whale of ICANN policy development. I believe there is a formal
organization effort underway to define it for ICANN, or did that conclude? (Staff, any update?) The problem is that both Board and GAC have always, and always will, insist on the right and flexibility to define it as they see it, in any given case. Just
like they did (and are still doing re Amazon, Islam, Halal, GCC and probably others) at least a dozen times out of the 2012 round.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WT5 would only have scope to discuss public interest as to geo names, which is only a small slice of the newTLD pie. I don't know if there has been discussion of defining 'public interest' in the broader SubPro group, but it seems a much
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:18 AM <a href="mailto:lists@christopherwilkinson.eu" target="_blank">
lists@christopherwilkinson.eu</a> <<a href="mailto:lists@christopherwilkinson.eu" target="_blank">lists@christopherwilkinson.eu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> <span style="color:#003300">(1) that ICANN received post-application GAC advice that varied from the applicant guidebook…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well, if we don’t want that to happen again, PDP and WT5 will have to work harder to understand and implement the public interest.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Form my point of view, there were significant lacunae in the 2012 AGB regarding the public interest, which still have not been corrected by the PDP.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003300">Thanks Katrin – namely two types of complaints:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003300">(1) that ICANN received post-application GAC advice that varied from the applicant guidebook and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003300">(2) that government public policy interests were considered by some governments to have been overlooked</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Katrin
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Aikman-Scalese, Anne <</span><a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">AAikman@lrrc.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>AW: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN 64 Kobe, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">you mentioned in your email that a geo TLD priority will “address complaints from the 2012 round.” Can you please point us to the facts which complaints have been made at that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Von:</span></b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gnso-newgtld-wg
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Auftrag von<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Aikman-Scalese, Anne<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Freitag, 12. April 2019 20:26<br>
<b>An:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Austin, Donna <</span><a href="mailto:Donna.Austin@team.neustar" target="_blank"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">Donna.Austin@team.neustar</span></a><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>;<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:alexander@schubert.berlin" target="_blank"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">alexander@schubert.berlin</span></a><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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<b>Betreff:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN 64 Kobe, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">Speaking personally (and not on behalf of the IPC or anyone else), I think the Neustar proposal was just that – a proposal to be considered and discussed by the full Working Group. I don’t think there was any
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">In the interest of continuing that discussion (and taking into account the letter from AFRALO/AfrICANN), I personally believe the full Working Group should seriously consider fostering good will for the new gTLD
program generally by giving a priority application window (or windows) to<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">1. Brand applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">2.<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Bona fide</i><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Community
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">1. Permitting a brand application window first may calm a lot of the discussion about country-by-country legislation to address consumer protection in light of restraints imposed by the GDPR. This is because
brands could elect to operate their own TLD and advise consumers that the brand TLD is the only way to reach genuine product and/or links to sellers of genuine product. This concern is real as evidenced by the attached letter from the US Dept of Commerce
to ICANN. <span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">2. Permitting a priority round for Community applications would mean that unless the community criteria are somehow not met, the program will be promoting free expression for new gTLD applicants (a goal of the
program) and serving a public good. Here there will be an opportunity to correct/address issues that arose in the last round.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">3. Re a “geo” priority round for governments (and their private sector partners if desired), this will also address complaints from the 2012 round.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#993366">4. IDNs and Underserved Region applications (and their private sector partners if desired) – again this gives ICANN the opportunity to express concern for the Global Public Interest and accessibility for all
Internet users worldwide<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gnso-newgtld-wg
[</span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">]<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Austin, Donna via Gnso-newgtld-wg<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, April 12, 2019 10:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:alexander@schubert.berlin" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">alexander@schubert.berlin</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">;<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN 64 Kobe, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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sets and those could be set aside while the other applications are processed in an arrangement similar to that posed in the Neustar proposal. Kathy, I don’t want to misrepresent your idea, so please correct me if I have this wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think Kathy’s suggestion would mean that there would be a single application window, but the concept of a phased process for evaluation may still be workable,
once contention sets are set aside.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gnso-newgtld-wg
[</span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">]<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Alexander Schubert<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, April 12, 2019 5:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN 64 Kobe, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Absolutely: We have defined a number of silos like “brand”, “geo”, “generic”, etc. The applications in each silo are NOT “unique”; there will be overlapping! We cannot stifle
contention and prioritize geo or brand applications over others.<br>
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The Neustar concept can still be utilized to a degree:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Have brands and geos putting in their applications – and have those evaluated! This alone will take a year. None of them however can ever be allocated to ONE applicant before
the “last group” (generic terms?) have applied for THEIR strings: If there is no contention with the brands and geos: GREAT! Then the already evaluated brand and geo TLDs can be contracted ASAP and go online. Thus resources are freed up for the other applicants.
But contention has to be allowed to occur from ALL phases of applications.<br>
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In theory the brands and geos could even do the “provisional” contracting and testing already: but they won’t go into the zone until the last application window has closed and no contention has been found. So the day the last window closes hundreds of cities
can go live. Brands seem to NEVER go “live” anyway (save .canon and a few others).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gnso-newgtld-wg
[</span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">]<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Rubens Kuhl<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, April 09, 2019 3:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="gmail-m-2913259283862572336gmail-m6028551677330212199gmail-m-5204055828758197363gmail-m1470063504873089009apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: AFRALO-AFRICANN statement - ICANN 64 Kobe, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That said, I don't see the community being able to settle on a priority round. Even though Geos and Brands, the ones that asked for this so far, were perceived as the most interesting use cases of the 2012 round, and while I believe it's
likely it will be the case again in the next procedure, there are so many potential clashes in the namespace that there will be always someone disgruntled by such priority. One hypothetical would be the association of apple farmers wanting .apple while Apple
Computer also wanted .apple*; the AFRALO-AFRICANN letter is yet another example of this. <o:p></o:p></p>
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