Steve,

I have the following issues to raise:

- The question of new gTLD strings that are unacceptable, e.g. for geographic

  TLDs, would not appear to be adequately defined in the current AGB. With

  regards to geographic regions and territories, the applicant is directed to

  UN listings for determining whether or not the application is aceptable, yet

  in the cases of Amazon and Patagonia, neither were on these listings, and

  this has caused conflictive situations which are unfortunate. Other considerations

  involving religion and generic terms are not clearly defined, and there is a

  clause in the AGB that effectively gives the GAC right of veto over anything

  one of their members might object to (this was added on the eve of the

  Singapore announcement of opening of applications). Some work needs to

  be done to improve this, providing clarity to applicants in a future round.

- Concerns expressed by the IP community should be carefully considered.

  The strong opposition to the new gTLD programme from that sector,

  resulted in several years of delays and postponements to the opening

  of the applicant window. Any outstanding issues that remain unsolved

  in this respect, should be reviewed.

- The instrument known as the COI (a letter of credit in favor of ICANN

  for the sum of U$S 140.000 which, prior to signing the Registry

  Agreement with ICANN, must be deployed, thus inmobilizing this

  sum for several years), should be revised as it constitutes an

  additional entry barrier to communities and non-profit organizations

  who wish to apply for a new gTLD.

- The mechanisms developed by the JAS working group, to support

  applicants with financial constraints, need to be reviewed and

  improved. The very limited takeup of this option during the

  application phase, would appear to signal the need for change.

Regards

Tony Harris

 

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org> wrote:

Dear DG Members,

This is a friendly reminder to please contribute your list of issues to the Wiki group workspace (https://community.icann.org/display/DGNGSR/3.+DG+Workspace) or to the email list. To provide a bit of additional clarification on what information might prove useful, as Bret spoke to on the first call, the issues can be big, can be small, specific to you or a group you represent, or what may be considered a widely held observation about the New gTLD Program. Issues should at a minimum include enough detail so that others can properly understand the issue. If you would like to make the issue description more detailed, you can consider the elements in the Request for Issue Report template found in Annex 2 of the PDP Manual found here (http://gnso.icann.org/en/council/annex-2-pdp-manual-16may13-en.pdf). Contributing a preliminary set of issues now would of course not preclude the submission of additional, or revision of, existing issues at a later date. Provided enough contributions are received, I would like to be able to take a first cut at categorizing those issues to facilitate the discussion at the next meeting, scheduled for Monday, 8 Sept 2014 at 14:00 UTC.

Please also be aware that it was discussed on the August 11th call that the group should aim to elect leaders at the subsequent meeting. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please do so over the email list. From conversations over the list in early August, it seemed that the group was leaning towards perhaps a pair of co-chairs.

Best,

Steven Chan
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