[CPWG] Message to RALO liaisons to WT5

[Maureen Hilyard]

Does anyone  from this ALAC group disagree with the proposals in the WT5
consensus document on the policy considerations?

We could use this as a starter for discussion to present to the WT5
co-Chairs.



On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 6:57 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear fellow RALO WT5 liaisons,
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> An action item from the ALAC call 24 April asks me to take the initiative
> to develop a common ALAC position on geographic names in the subsequent
> gTLD procedures. During  that call,  Alan suggested that this effort
> could involve the five RALO liaisons to the WT5 and other interested
> people, and mentioned also CPWG.
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> I have not acted so far on this AI, because in my view, our only
> meaningful contribution to the WT5 process would be to suggest compromises
> to its most difficult issues, including  names of non-capital cities,
> which WT5 has spent most of its time on, mostly engaged in a  fruitless
> dispute between the extremes.  The atmosphere so far might not have been
> conducive for discussing compromise proposals...
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> However,  at ICANN62, there finally was a push by co-chairs for “meeting
> in the middle”, especially concerning non-capital cities, and for "seeking
> convergence on principles." See slides of the 28 June session:
> https://static.ptbl.co/static/attachments/179943/1530207670.
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> <https://static.ptbl.co/static/attachments/179943/1530207670.pdf?1530207670>
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> Now might be the time for an ALAC contribution along the lines that Alan
> has often repeated: there should be no big winners and big losers in the WT
> 5.  In others words, a compromise, something in the middle.
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> That’s why I’m asking for your thoughts, ideas and suggestions on how we
> could facilitate finding compromises in the WT5, especially on the issue of
> non-capital cities. This is late in the day in the life of WT5, so please
> react soon. After an email exchange, we could ask the staff to arrange a
> call, if necessary.  I’m also asking CPWG to take note of this effort,  the
> results of which I hope could be presented to CPWG soon.
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> Yrjö
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