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• Completely eliminate the term "morality and public order";
• Replace the function of the Dispute Resolution Service Provider through the existing resolution dispute mechanism with 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".

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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:

"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 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."

In addition, we wish to explicitly call attention to an issue that received substantial support but not consensus: that a super-majority of the Board should be required to reject gTLD applications based on these criteria.

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