I would ask that the NARALO MOU stipulate that ICANN has the obligation to inform the NARALO upon the receipt of any relevant ccTLD redelegation request (.us or .ca) so that community input may be provided
Don't forget .as .gu .pr .vi and the always trendy .um. An additional specific concern for the US is the legacy registrars of geographic domains, of whom I am one. Back before the Neustar contract, all addresses in .us were geographic, like trumansburg.ny.us, and many of the legacy local domains were delegated to local volunteer registries, of whom I am one. Neustar's attitude toward the legacy volunteers has been quite hostile, demanding among other things unlimited indemnification for any legal costs. They may have been following directions from DOC, hard to say. Although the number of legacy domains is relatively small, they tend to be long established and important community resources. For example, www.trumansburg.ny.us has been our community web site for a decade, and my church has had web and mail at unitarian.ithaca.ny.us for nearly as long. Whatever they do to .US, it's important to do something reasonable to keep the legacy domains working, preferably with the established knowledgable community registries. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.