Um, so this digital archery business, I looked a the website and I'm not sure how this affect the price of butter. So, guidance, please. Are these fellas saying they have prior/early access to all the applicant data? And the process for working applicant evaluations? If so, on what authority? - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>wrote:
Dear Dirk,
thank you for your kind email which raises very valid points. I am CC'ing the ALAC working list for discussion. Warmest regards,
Olivier Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair
On 19/04/2012 14:54, Dirk Krischenowski wrote :
Dear Olivier,
we write to you to express our serious concern regarding the proposed batching procedure, known as digital archery.
Taking the recent activities of domain industry players into account, we expect that the first and second batch will be populated with generic .com clone standard applications such as .web, .shop, .wine, .beach or .horse.
Most of the applicants outside the US, especially small language and culture communities will be pushed aside to a much later batch. Also Geographic and Community gTLD applicants with public interest support of governments and communities will be pushed aside and will suffer serious economic disadvantages.
We urgently ask you to not sit back and watch how your achievements and safeguards for Geographic gTLDs, the Applicant Support Program and other public interest provisions in the Applicant Guidebook are watered down by a crude digital archery system which clearly privileges a few "clever" domain investors from the developed world.
Some ideas have already been circulated, such as the one giving applicants with a single application preference over those who apply for up to 50 strings with the same entity. Another approach could be to incorporate the different categories of applications in a fairly balanced manner in the global public interest.
Please put this topic on the ALAC agenda with urgency to ensure equal opportunities to all applicants!
Sincerely,
Dirk Krischenowski Founder and Managing Director _______________________ dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG Akazienstrasse 2 10823 Berlin Germany Tel +49 30 49782354 Fax +49 30 49782356 Mobile +49 173 2339156 E-Mail krischenowski@dotberlin.de Skype "krischenowski" Web www.dotberlin.com
-- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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