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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Relatedly but more broadly, how best to ensure that bottom-up policy development processes are not damaged or threatened by alternate/parallel developments (recent examples: handling of the LEA requests by/through the GAC; the resurrection of trademark protection issues in new gTLDs)? </font><br><br><font face="Lucida Grande" STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><br>Mary W S Wong
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<BR>UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAWTwo White StreetConcord, NH 03301USAEmail: mary.wong@law.unh.eduPhone: 1-603-513-5143Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.phpSelected">http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.phpSelected</a> writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=437584">http://ssrn.com/author=437584</a>
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David Cake <dave@DIFFERENCE.COM.AU> </p>
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2/28/2012 4:36 AM </p>
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Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Fwd: [soac-discussion] FW: ICANN 43 Public Forum Agenda Building </p>
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On 28/02/2012, at 4:37 PM, William Drake wrote<br><br>> We had a discussion the other day about how fruitless discussions of "big picture" geopolitical items have been in the Board-NCSG meetings. Accordingly, my suggestion would be to try posing those questions in the public forum instead. It might be that in front of a full room from diverse SO/ACs they will find it less easy to wave such matters away, and it may also be that some such questions would resonate with others in the community who'd pick up the points and make not a "only NCSG wants to know" thing. We could then concentrate questions for the Board-NCSG on the purely internal issues they'll tell us are being dealt with elsewhere and they're just there to listen to our views—reserved names, management of the applicant support process, LEA, etc…<br><br>I would have thought LEAs counted as a big picture item, but discussion of how LEAs will fit into the ICANN process is something I'd like to see.<br>No one really wants to have the LEAs making demands, but the current situation where LEAs just kind of hang around and then get the GAC to bully other stakeholders on their behalf doesn't sound great either.<br>Cheers<br>David<br>
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