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The At-Large Community urges the Board to fully implement the consensus recommendations of the Rec6 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 The Board to must encourage the ongoing work of the Rec6 CWG; : we are confident that, given some reasonable extra time, outstanding issues that have not yet reached consensus may be resolved.

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• 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 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 objections based on these criteria;
• 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 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 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 Community Implementation Support Team" (Rec6 CIST) to provide input to ICANN Implementation Staff as they further refine implementation details.

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"We emphatically call for the complete abolition of the class of objections based on morality and public order. We assert that ICANN has no business being in (or delegating) the role of comparing relative morality and conflicting human rights.
Abolishing the morality and public order class of objection will eliminate the risk to ICANN of bearing responsibility for delegating morality judgment to an inadequate DSRP.
Certain extreme forms of objectionable strings may be addressed through minormodifications minor modifications to the ''Community'' class of objection. While we fully appreciate the motivation behind this class of objection, we cannot envision any application of it that will result in fewer problems than its abolition."

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