Annette, your citations are taken out of context, and made worse by poor wording on the slide. The heading of the list on slide 12 was "Examples of narrow exceptions under consideration: where to draw the line?".

From discussion (transcript is or will be posted), it was clear that this list was a summary of the types of restrictions on free speech found in various national laws. It was clear that this total list was not what ICANN would use to screen gTLDs. Perhaps we may not be happy when we see what ICANN staff finally recommends to the Board, but it is unfair to characterize the list on the slide as such.

The title line could have been clearer.

Since I am not on all of these LAC, AFRI, APAC and EURO lists, I presume this message will bounce. I would appreciate it if you would forward this to them.

Alan

At 11/02/2008 08:47 AM, Annette Muehlberg wrote:

All,

you may want to have a look at these slides.

I guess, it will be a challenge to get new gtlds through this maze of restrictions.

No "subversive propaganda", criticism of religion, etc. etc. in domain names.

here is the staff's plan to implement council's new gtld recommendations
http://www.gnso.icann.org/correspondence/presentation-gnso-new-gtlds-09feb08.pdf

best greetings

annette
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