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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well the news is partly good and partly
bad. As a whole the letter seems to be an attempt by NTIA to get ICANN to stop
or delay for another 2 years or so any addition of new TLDs. We know that lots
of business/trademark lobbies have been complaining loudly about the new gTLD
process. While the paragraph cited by Robin does indeed agree with our
position, the general upshot is “back to square one.” I would like
to solicit constituency comment: is this new gTLD process so bad that we want
to stop it altogether? In many ways this would have to be seen as a massive
failure – after 10 years, ICANN still cannot define an ongoing process to
add new TLDs? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Non-Commercial
User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Robin Gross<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 20, 2008
1:49 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> Govt Agrees
with NCUC on ICANN's "Inappropriate" Plan to Police Morality and
Public Order</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The US Govt submitted its comments to ICANN on the introduction of new
gTLDs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> <a
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00175.html">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00175.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>And the US Govt agreed with a point NCUC has been making throughout
this entire process. The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
suggests ICANN "Focus on coordinating technical functions related to
the management of the DNS and not on matters more appropriately addressed by
governments, such as adjudication of morality and public order and the
community objections in accordance with international human rights law.
The proposed mechanisms are inappropriate."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Interesting to say
the least.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Robin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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