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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Von:</b> Gnso-newgtld-wg <gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Aikman-Scalese, Anne<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 15. Dezember 2020 10:15<br>
<b>An:</b> Jamie Baxter <jbaxter@spimarketing.com>; Jeff Neuman <jeff@jjnsolutions.com>; gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] 10th and (hopefully) Final Topical E-mail - Community Scoring<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">I support the change to 75-80% of total evaluation scoring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Anne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Gnso-newgtld-wg <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jamie Baxter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 14, 2020 11:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff@jjnsolutions.com">jeff@jjnsolutions.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] 10th and (hopefully) Final Topical E-mail - Community Scoring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Muli",serif">Hey Jeff and Cheryl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Muli",serif">I welcome and support the proposal of adjusting the scoring threshold to a percentage (75-80) of total evaluation scoring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Muli",serif">This sounds completely in alignment with overall efforts to prioritize communities in the new gTLD program and this score threshold sounds much more realistic and reasonable
as a scoring threshold for community applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Muli",serif">Jamie Baxter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gnso-newgtld-wg <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff@jjnsolutions.com">jeff@jjnsolutions.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, December 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Gnso-newgtld-wg] 10th and (hopefully) Final Topical E-mail - Community Scoring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is the
<u>Tenth Topical E-mail</u> on outstanding questions being “put to the list.” This covers the question of overall scoring to pass CPE (Topic 34)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Remember: We are down to the wire on this, so unless you have a VERY strong objection to these, we will put these into the document. If you do have a big issue
with the responses to these (all of which were previously discussed and in emails over the past 1.5 months), please let us know ASAP. Only comments that provide the rationale for the objection with proposed replacement text to address the specific outstanding
questions will now be considered.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-US">Current Applicant Guidebook Language:</span></u><span lang="EN-US"> “An application must score at least 14 points to prevail in a community priority evaluation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">II.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-US">Issue</span></u><span lang="EN-US">: Some commenters to the Draft Final Report, including the ALAC, Infonetworks, Swiss Government, fTLD Registry Services supported lowering the threshold from 14 out of
16 points (approx. 88%) to 12 out of 16 points (75%). However, it should be noted that during our discussions, not everyone supported the lowering of the threshold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-US">Discussion Points</span></u><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">We have recommended a number of changes already to CPE, including more transparency, more flexibility to recognize non-economic based communities, increased scrutinization of letters of
opposition, more involvement in the selection process of evaluators, etc. These changes should go a long way to mitigate the issues faced in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">That said, the current scoring framework was rigid and required a perfect or nearly perfect scoring on every evaluation criteria. As we observed, very few applications were able to achieve
community status.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">On the other hand, merely lowering the scoring down to 12 (from 14) would only have resulted in one additional application during the 2012 round achieving Community Priority.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, even if we lower the threshold to an actual number, leaves little flexibility to implement a new scoring mechanism (should the ICANN community desire such a new mechanism) which
encompasses all of the policy changes we have recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">IV.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-US">Proposal</span></u><span lang="EN-US">:
<i>Given the Working Group’s affirmation of the importance of the prioritization of community-based applications, and subject to all of the Recommendations and Implementation Guidance set forth in this Report, the Working Group urges the Implementation Review
Team to consider changing the passing score for achieving community priority status from a hard score of 14 out of 16 points to achieving a score of at least 75-80% of the total available evaluation points. This not only emphasizes the importance we place
on community-based applications, but also provides some flexibility in any future scoring methodology.</i><b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please have your comments (If any) by no later than 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Absent a strong showing of support on the list for this change,
we will default back to the original text in the Draft Final Report.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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