[NCSG-Discuss] Independent Objector Weighs In on "closed/private" tlds

[Jorge Amodio]

Unfortunately my country (Argentina) even having a person for a long time
being involved in different roles in the ICANN ecosystem and surprisingly
not knowing some facts like ICANN's funding support for objections, and
many people (including me) pointing them to what is the process to follow
and what should be done to object a particular application, which in my
view is not about a specific string but something that will set a precedent
on how strings that fall in a grey area are handled, totally failed to put
together and provide a consistent and solid argument based on serious
studies and facts showing why approving the .PATAGONIA string and its
"closed" use will have a negative effect to the Internet community and the
public in general.

Patagonia, Inc., has even it's name registered under Argentinean trademark
law, and they followed step by step what is stated in the guidelines.

There is also no international treaty or the name showing clearly
registered as a "geographic region" anywhere (meaning international
standards), that may not be the case for "amazon."

They also fail to recognize that even ccTLDs are not "property" of
governments, and that sovereign rights have nothing to do with new gTLDs or
any TLDs, and that by just plain diatribe without substance citing history
and going back to the Columbus era, they are just wasting time.

Another point is that, they do not provide any explanation about what would
they do if by any chance the string is not approved and it is offered to
"them," they are barely doing a decent job trying to manage the ccTLD,
there is no funding for this type of things and the people in charge are
totally incompetent.

So far in my opinion they have not been able to provide a convincing
argument why the string should not be approved.

Now how the GAC will take this and provide its final advice its unknown to
me at this moment.

I participated in a campaign trying to object the .PATAGONIA application,
not just because of the name but as said before it will set precedent on
how this type of applications will be handled in the future, in particular
when the second level of the new gTLD will not be available for others.

PS. The incompetence goes beyond ICANN matters and the DNS, when a
President says things like "diabetes is an illness of rich people," you
figure the rest.

My .02
Jorge
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