On 2/26/13 11:06 AM, ICANN At-Large Staff wrote:
Dear All,
Please see an important message being sent on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Chair of the At-Large new gTLD Review Group:
I offered objections to each of: .amazon .patagonia .health .nyc I sent these directly to Dev, and I resent them to the NA-Discuss list, to which Dev has posted in the past, and is, or was, a subscriber, and so might have a second opportunity to notice a response to his solicitation for comment. I also tried to find a means to add my comments to the wiki, but lacked write permission on the wiki. I pointed this out to Dev in mail as well. I've the impression that Dev's original mail was pro-forma, that no response was actually anticipated, or recognized -- at least, I can see no effect in having bothered to respond to Dev, directly, via the list, or attempting to engage directly in the wiki to record a comment. I concur with the observations of RJGlass that there is something wrong with the current process. I also point out that the preemptive discard of objections _from_ the North American Region to applications _from_ the North American Region to expropriate significant regional identifiers originating _in_ any other region, South America in the instant cast, is _peculiar_. If the North American regional at-large entity can't object to the rapacious acts of North American for-profit corporate actors, that leaves only unpaid collaboration in theft, through "silence" and/or actual objection suppression, which appears to be the instant case. Eric Brunner-Williams