[council] Draft Statement of Work for Sunrise Working Group

[Avri Doria]

Hi,


Some initial comments/questions:


Re Proposed Purpose.  The purpose as written presupposes that sunrise  
policies and processes are a good thing and we merely have to  
determine if they are as good as they should be.  The purpose of the  
working group should also include the need to determine whether  
sunrise policies and processes have a negative or positive effect on  
the network.

Re Requirements for sunrise policies and processes;  We should  
analyze the problem that sunrise policies are meant to solve.  And  
before deciding that sunrise policies are the answer to these  
requirements analyze both the positive and negative effects of  
sunrise  policies and processes.


Re 1 - we also need to analyze the negative effects, actual and  
theoretical, of sunrise policies.

re II: we should not only measure the happiness of the users of these  
processes but also the effect on the Internet in general.  E.g. o  
these policies interfere with competition by giving global  
monopolistic control to words and their variants to trademark claimants?

This especially concerns me once we get to IDN's.  what will be the  
impact of sunrise in IDN 'equivalents'.  We need to determine the  
relation of transliteration and translation and applicable national  
regulations to the use of sunrise policies/processes to capture and  
control local language markets.

In terms of membership I reiterate my comment about outreach.  I  
would like to see someone from Creative Commons or some other similar  
viewed organization included as well as strong language community  
representation.  Also, to reiterate one of my normal remark, I would  
like to make sure that nomcom appointees are not excluded from the  
WG.  Then again, I favor a larrger working group to accommodate many  
points of view and widespread discussion.

thanks
a.