Hi Phil
Happy to provide some context from the RySG perspective.
The RySG sent a letter to the Board on 9 November 2015, not our first on this issue, but this letter does provide an annex with a Chronology of Events leading up to that time and has links to other RySG communication.
http://media.wix.com/ugd/ec8e4c_b988d2ca94c442a48037e610fbaf225f.pdf
Also happy to answer any questions folks may have.
Donna
From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org]
On Behalf Of Phil Corwin
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 4:19 PM
To: council@gnso.icann.org
Subject: [council] Two Letter gTLD Domains
Council colleagues:
Over the weekend Milton Mueller posted a rather provocative blog at
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/08/26/another-government-land-grab-in-the-name-space/ , concerning the just-closed comment period on Proposed Measures for Letter/Letter Two-Character ASCII Labels to Avoid Confusion with Corresponding Country Codes
(at https://www.icann.org/public-comments/proposed-measures-two-char-2016-07-08-en).
It prompted me to review the filed comments, and I noted that the NCSG, IPC, and registry SG all came out against aspects of the staff proposal that concerns Prof. Mueller.
While this item is not on our agenda for the September 1st call, I would hope that we can at least begin a preliminary discussion during the concluding AOB section. I would like to better understand the historic context for the
current proposal. Beyond the specifics of the proposal, my more general concern is that ICANN may be moving to implement a general policy for gTLDs that originates from ICANN staff rather than a PDP, and that apparently there is not even GAC Consensus Advice
to which the proposal is responding.
Thanks and best regards,
Philip
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