[council] GNSO PDP new TLDS: Call for further information

[Liz Williams]

Ross

As the "staff" I thank you...from the bottom of my academic's heart.   
The citations to Bruce's email notes are to alert readers to the GNSO  
Council archives.

Liz
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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels
+32 2 234 7874 tel
+32 2 234 7848 fax
+32 497 07 4243 mob




On 08 Mar 2006, at 17:08, Ross Rader wrote:

> In documents like this, it would be useful to augment citations  
> with a hyperlink to the referenced message or resource. It is  
> difficult (or impossible) for a layperson to read this document and  
> benefit from the larger context that these limited footnotes  
> provide for.
>
> There are any number of online style guides that provide  
> recommendations for citing online sources ) - I heartily recommend  
> that staff choose one of these for future use - it will make these  
> documents eminently more readable, and therefore useful, for our  
> purposes.
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> i.e. http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/Turabian.htm
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> [25] National Park Service,  Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National  
> Historic Site, 11 February 2003, available from http://www.nps.gov/ 
> abli/; Internet; accessed 13 February 2003.
>
> Liz Williams wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues
>> I have attached for your review a document which sets out a  
>> request for additional information on the technical selection  
>> criteria for new TLDs.
>> The document focuses on four key questions around technical  
>> criteria which we discussed at some length at the Washington meeting.
>> Could I ask you and your constituencies to come to Wellington with  
>> more detailed information about your positions (and the  
>> justification for those positions based on ICANN's mission and  
>> values)?  We would then be able to move forward with discussions  
>> about the appropriateness of other selection criteria and  
>> allocation methods.
>> I will be delivering to you all, I hope by the end of this week,  
>> an updated version of the new TLD /Initial Report/ in which I have  
>> included Washington inputs and other information.
>> I would expect to be working on that /Initial Report/ during the  
>> two day session planned for 25 & 26 March.
>> Kind regards and, of course, any questions come straight back to  
>> me.  If necessary, we could add quick discussion of this document  
>> to the agenda for next week's Council call.
>> Liz
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>> Liz Williams
>> Senior Policy Counselor
>> ICANN - Brussels
>> +32 2 234 7874 tel
>> +32 2 234 7848 fax
>> +32 497 07 4243 mob
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