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The At-Large Community urges the Board to fully implement the consensus recommendations of the Rec 6 CWG. The work of this committee was the very example of the bottom-up process that ICANN claims to be its foundation.   We urge the Board to encourage the ongoing work of the Rec 6 CWG; we are confident that, given some reasonable extra time, outstanding issues that have not yet reached consensus may be resolved.   

At-Large has always been in generally against the very principle of gTLD string objections based on "morality and public order". However, we see the Rec 6 CWG recommendations as an effective way to attend to the most pressing needs while addressing our  our concerns about the existing implementation. We wholeheartedly concur with the recommendations in the report that achieved Full Consensus or Consensus.   Specifically, we wish to emphasize, as strongly as possible, our support for the CWG's consensus calls to:

• Completely eliminate the term "morality and public order"
• Replace the function of the Dispute Resolution Service Provider through the processes defined by recommendations 3 and 4 and 3 from the CWG Report (review to correlate to Report)
• Limit objection criteria to specific principles of international law and treaty
• Deny national law as a sole criteria for objection
• Resolve disputes of this nature early in the application process
• Require individual government objections to be made either through the Community Objections Process or through one of the   the ALAC and the GAC
• Enable the GAC and ALAC to submit objections through the Independent Objector
• Uphold a gTLD creation process that encourages "the true diversity of ideas, cultures and views on the Internet"

We are also committed to achieving consensus on those issues in which no resolution has yet been made, and encourage the continuation of the the CWG in these efforts. We believe that additional time in cross-community discussions would resolve them.   We strongly urge support of recommendation of 14.1, to create a "Rec6 6 Community Implementation Support Team" (Rec6 CIST) to provide input to ICANN Implementation Staff as they further refine implementation details  details.

It is rewarding and noteworthy that these recommendations, in the main, closely resemble statements on the gTLD application process that were part of the declaration of the At-Large Summit held during the ICANN meeting of March 2009, which stated:

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If any of the above recommendations are seen to be "inconsistent with existing process", that is a clear indication that the existing process contains fundamental flaws that have been identified and must be addressed. ICANN's community has spoken in an  an unprecedented and unambiguous manner, and the At-Large Advisory Committee is proud of our effort to help such divergent views together to produce clear and workable policy.

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[http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/report-rec6-cwg-21sep10-en.pdf|http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/report-rec6-cwg-21sep10-en.pdf]  \[PDF, 1.06 MB\]

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