[ispcp] Draft Application Guidebook

[Anthony Harris]

Hello Masa,

Thanks for your appropriate comments, they
should contribute to improving the second version
of the Draft Applicant Guidebook.

Regards

Tony Harris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARUYAMA Naomasa" <maruyama at nic.ad.jp>
To: <ispcp at icann.org>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:43 PM
Subject: [ispcp] Draft Application Guidebook


> 
> Hi friends,
> 
> This is Masa Maruyama with JPNIC.
> 
> It's a happy news that ICANN extended the comment period for New gTLD
> draft application guide book.  For your information, here is my
> comment just sent out.  I hope this will be useful for you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Masa
> 
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> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 04:18:17 +0900 (JST)
> Message-Id: <200812081918.mB8JIHj2078244 at surya.ism.ac.jp>
> To: gtld-guide at icann.org
> Subject: Preamble
> From: maruyama at nic.ad.jp (MARUYAMA Naomasa)
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
>  I think the Application Guidebook should contain a preamble to give
> overall image of the New gTLD process in the context of ICANN's policy
> making.  For those who read the Guidebook for the first time, it is
> particularly important that the guidebook to be self-contained.  I
> think the guidebook tries to explain all the details of the
> application process itself(I truely appreciate all the effort made by
> the staff for that), but lacks an explanation about the positioning of
> the process in the whole ICANN's policy making.  This is a shortcoming
> of the guidebook in the sense that it will be hard for those who are
> not familiar with activities of the ICANN to understand the meaning of
> the process.
> 
>  My image of the preamble is:
> - At most one page long,
> - having a rough explanation about the history of the PDP process,
> - having an explanation about purpose of creating new gTLDs in the
>  context of ICANN's mission, especially about the idea that gTLDs are
>  for registry operators and for promoting competition in the domain
>  name market(thus the Registry-Registrar model will be enforced).
> 
> I hope my comment will be useful.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> ----
> (Mr.) NaoMASA Maruyama
> Japan Network Information Center(JPNIC)