Patrick , James, Siva, some thoughts for your task The proposal from Jothan - who was in the room during Seoul could learn a little about it. I believe it is a good initiative since we need to accelerate the entrance of new gTLDs and the idea gives opportunity to assure for applicants they will be in the next call, and then assure their investors to keep supporting them, as well as Patrick said gives to us - ICANN - a notion o quantity - important to understand whether may have or not a problem at root server level. Some points talked around to you to debate during the work: a) people may have no intention to open to public their ideas about new TLD, though a lot already did as we saw at Sydney + Seoul meetings b) there shall be a substantial deposit (refundable in mostly cases) to guarantee these will be the ones that will face the amount of money to pay for the new TLD ( othewise the quantity info will be not close to the correct number). The amount shall be part of the 185K c) morality issues - GAC had some points related to it - see GAC comuniqués to the board to have this point over the table. d) important,I believe, is to assure dates and times to start processes or the information will only be useful to the existent gTLDs the idea is toa cclelerate the process e) again the issue of non disclosure - I may consider the expression of interest shall come in closed envelop with the info demanded and the payment comproved, and not to be published as individual application ( name/company/name of the TLD/region etc). Only the amount of strings as total. f) But there comes the point of similar strings- in some way people with similar strings shall be informed. If this entrance to this list of Expression of Interest will the the final list, them the second entrant shall be notified that are other similar in a better position in the list. If this list will be not the final one, them both need to be informed to run when the process is supposed to open g) Money will be not refundable in which cases? I believe in f) cases shall be refunded; if staff sees some incongruence in any string proposed the money shall also be refunded etc. thanks for the opportunity to share. Good work and If I can help in any case, keep in touch. Best cid:image002.jpg@01C93E96.B7BF8BD0 Vanda Scartezini Polo Consultores Associados Alameda Santos 1470 #1407 Tel - +55.11.3266.6253 Mob- +55.11.8181.1464 <mailto:vanda@uol.com.br> vanda@uol.com.br -----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Vande Walle Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:35 AM To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Fwd: Expressions of Interest Working Group Thanks James and Siva for volunteering. My understanding is that the group participants were selected as to have both an adequate coverage of all AC/SOs and regions, without favouring one or another. It was also meant to be rather limited so as to move forward fast. Hence, I am afraid there is no possibility to add participants. I note however, that the WG still misses a member from Africa. However, as I said, I would be happy to relay your concerns. Patrick On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:13:11 +0800, James Seng <james@seng.sg> wrote:
I also volunteer myself for the working group but not in my ALAC
capacity.
james
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Patrick Vande Walle
<patrick@vande-walle.eu>wrote:
I am forwarding this e-mail from Antony Van Couvering regarding the
Expression of Interest working group.
In summary, there is a proposal to
the ICANN board to allow potential new gTLD applicants to formally
notify
ICANN of their interest to apply for a new gTLD.
The goal is that it will
allow ICANN to figure out the exact number of applications they will
get.
Figures from 100 to 10.000 have been commonly heard. But no one know
for
sure right now. It will allow ICANN to size their operations
accordingly.
For the applicants, it will allow them to see if there are multiple
applications for the same string, allowing them to either start
possible
partnerships ahead of the formal call for applications or to throw the
towel right away, potentially saving them a lot of money by avoiding
and
expensive application process and auctions. In the end, we all know
that
the costs will be passed on to registrants one way or another.
I have
joined this working group in an individual capacity, with no mandate
from
the ALAC. However, I was approached to participate because it was
thought I
could bring some "At-large flavour" to the discussion. Hence, I look
forward to receive your comments and will relay them to the group.
Note
that the deadline is pretty tight. We already have a teleconference
tonight
(Monday) and a final call next Friday.
Looking forward to your comments,
Patrick
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