Dear all, And now with Donna's email included, Kind regards, Bart From: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel@icann.org<mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org>> Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:21 PM To: "ccnso-council@icann.org<mailto:ccnso-council@icann.org>" <ccnso-council@icann.org<mailto:ccnso-council@icann.org>> Subject: [ccnso-council] ARI letter on Name Collision issue Dear all, Please find included: Email from Donna Austin on behalf of ARI Registry Services to Byron ( per todays update). Letter from ARI Registry Services to Steve Crocker on the Name Collision issue And finally the link to the Report from ICANN staff to ccNSO on the same issue ( published on the ccNSO website): Briefing on Name Collision Risk for New TLDs<http://ccnso.icann.org/node/43891> Per meeting today, this topic will be on the Council agenda at the meeting in London Kind regards, Bart --------------------------------------------- ----Original Message----- From: Donna Austin [mailto:Donna.Austin@ariservices.com] Sent: May-14-14 1:24 PM To: Byron Holland Cc: Adrian Kinderis (ARI Registry Services) Subject: Name collisions and new ccTLDs Dear Byron My CEO, Adrian Kinderis, recently attended the APTLD meeting in Oman and had the opportunity to discuss name collisions and the impact on new ccTLDs with Bart Boswinkel. The unequal treatment of new gTLDs and new ccTLDs on this issue by the Board has been a concern for ARI for some time and one that Adrian has raised with ICANN on a number of occasions; most recently in a letter to Steve Crocker (copy attached). Adrian was pleased to learn from Bart that Akram Atallah had reached out the ccNSO about this issue via a briefing paper dated 19 February 2014, which was followed up with a briefing by Francisco Arias during the ccNSO meeting Singapore. My read of the briefing paper and the presentation by Francisco is that absent advice from the ccNSO on this issue, ICANN intends to do the following for new ccTLDs: Send each new ccTLD manager the same kind of interim report that new gTLDs received for the alternate path to delegation. It will remain the responsibility of the local Internet Community and the ccTLD manager to either: 1) proceed to delegation while temporarily blocking the SLDs identified in the report; 2) temporarily defer delegation until receipt of their full collision occurrence assessment and implementation of the measures described; or 3) some other course of action determined by the local Internet Community and the ccTLD manager. We're interested in understanding whether the ccNSO intends to respond to ICANN on this issue, or perhaps they already have, in which case could you provide me with a copy of the response. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks, Donna DONNA AUSTIN Policy and Industry Affairs Officer ARI REGISTRY SERVICES Melbourne | Los Angeles P +1 310 890 9655 P +61 3 9866 3710 E donna.austin@ariservices.com W www.ariservices.com