Hello all... In my emails today I have received these DAG v4 Public Comments from GNSO BC constituency for our information and possible action, (you will remember the BC reached out to us previously re DAG 3 and what they felt might be mutual concerns and interest points) which I am passing on to both the ALAC for their consideration and to this end will have an Agenda Item set for say 10-15 mins discussion on DAG4 and new gTLD matters at our July Meeting and of course for the consideration and possible action by our new gTLD WG (should this WG have any contributions on this or other DAG4 matters by our meeting that would be appreciated and we can also set some time aside to hear from any Members present at the meeting as well. Evan can you let me know if there is anything we can do to facilitate the WG's activities on this => perhaps set up a call with some members of the BC etc., ? Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron Andruff <ra@dotsportllc.com> Date: 14 July 2010 01:01 Subject: DAG v4 Public Comments To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr@gmail.com>, Tony Holmes < tonyarholmes@btinternet.com>, "Steven J. Metalitz" <met@msk.com> Dear all, As you know the BC, in large measure driven by me in this case, took issue with four aspects of DAGv3, namely: · ICANN Staff Recommendations for Rights Protection Mechanisms · Translations of Strings from ASCII to Other Scripts or Languages · Revised Comparative Evaluation Scoring · Market Differentiation Between New gTLDs The entire BC comment is attached for your ease of reference. While I do not know (and would like to hear from others that are better informed) what happened with regard to our first issue, RPMs, I do know that the BC’s other three comments were wholly ignored by staff. I have spoken with each of you along this path to new gTLDs on various occasions about these issues, Steve has taken up the mantle with me most recently in Brussels regarding Comparative Evaluation Scoring, but we need your so/constituencies to weigh in as well. I know that there was some timing difficulties in your getting positions out the last comment period, so I am hopeful that you can pick up on these important issues this time around. Please let me know if there is anything further I can do to assist you in supporting these important issues. Thanks in advance for your consideration. Kind regards, RA Ron Andruff President & CEO dotSport LLC 220 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10001 +1 212 481-2820 ext. 11 Visit us at: www.dotSportLLC.com *Click **here* <http://www.dotsportllc.com/index.php?pageId=27>* for dotSportLLC's latest update!*