While batching is of primary interest to the gNSO, it is of (secondary) interest to the wider ICANN community. ICANN has not been clear enough how this batching process will work, and this appears to me as a recipe for another unwanted controversy that ICANN may stumble into. The TAS fiasco has forced some of us to explain ICANN to different partiesŠregardless of the fact that we're not in the gNSO. If ICANN opens itself to criticism, the entire ICANN community is affected. Thus, the ccNSO is well within its right to discuss batching with the ICANN Board because if batching proves disastrous (and it has a potential to be so), we all will be affected by the negative publicity, and some of us in the ccTLD community may have to explain many things to our governments. Regards, Vika Mpisane ZADNA Tel: +27 11 314 0077 On 2012/05/24 2:03 PM, "Peter Vergote" <peter.vergote@dns.be> wrote:

Dear all,

I would like to support Andrei's proposition. It is far from obvious that the current working method is in the best interest of the community. I personally feel that it is more a way to facilitate certain intermediaries in order to get even more money out of the pockets of gTLD applicants than an objective division of applications in an orderly fashion.

I only wonder whether the ccNSO can afford to debate this with the ICANN Board while it is more relevant to the gTLD's than to us cc's. But if this would be the case, I'm very much in favor off Andrei's suggestion.

Best regs,

Peter

Peter Vergote Legal & Admin. Manager +32 16 29 89 28

DNS Belgium vzw/asbl Ubicenter . Philipssite 5, bus 13 . B-3001 Leuven www.dns.be

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: owner-ccnso-members@icann.org [mailto:owner-ccnso-members@icann.org] Namens Andrei Kolesnikov Verzonden: donderdag 24 mei 2012 7:42 Aan: 'Gabriella Schittek'; ccnso-members@icann.org; cctldcommunity@cctld-managers.org CC: ccnso-council@icann.org Onderwerp: [ccnso-members] RE: [ccTLDcommunity] Items for discussion with ICANN Board

I would like to propose a focused discussion regarding the proposed method of batching.

--andrei

-----Original Message----- From: cctldcommunity-bounces@cctld-managers.org [mailto:cctldcommunity-bounces@cctld-managers.org] On Behalf Of Gabriella Schittek Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:28 AM To: ccnso-members@icann.org; cctldcommunity@cctld-managers.org Cc: ccnso-council@icann.org Subject: [ccTLDcommunity] Items for discussion with ICANN Board

Dear all,

At the Prague meeting, the ccNSO will meet with the ICANN Board members on Tuesday, 26 June. We have been asked to deliver a list of topics that we wish to raise during this meeting. The ccNSO Council has suggested following items:

* The top priorities that the Board will give the new CEO for FY13 * FY13 Ops Plan and Budget * New gTLD program: highlights of past months, trends, looking forward * IANA contract

Please, let me know if you wish to add any other item to this list by Thursday, 31 May at the latest.

Kind regards,

Gabi

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