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Proposed text for an ALAC statement on the CWG Report

Second Third draft, modified during the community consultation conference call and reflecting minor edit suggestions by Alan Greenerg (Oct 2122, 1816:00 UTC)

The At-Large Community urges the Board to fully implement the consensus recommendations of the Rec6 CWG. The work of this working group was the very example of the multi-stakeholder, bottom-up process that ICANN claims to be its foundation. The Board 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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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.

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 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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