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WHEREAS ICANN stakeholders representing general Internet end-users and sovereign states have only been invited to participate had limited participation in the new development of the gTLD program long after its foundation principles were determined;

WHEREAS most of the problems identified by the ALAC in its Mexico City Summit declaration of February 2009 related to the new-gTLD program have not been satisfactorily addressed and indeed some have worsened;

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WHEREAS the absence of a staggered release schedule or a fixed timetable for future rounds severely inhibits ICANN's ability to correct errors and assess unintended consequences in the proposed application round;

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WHEREAS ICANN has still not convincingly demonstrated the end-user need or benefit of a simultaneous launch of hundreds of new TLDs;

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WHEREAS the ALAC supports the introduction of gTLDs but is concerned about the ability of ICANN to protect the interests of Internet end-users as it scales to cope with a massive expansion;

RESOLVED THAT while the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) continues to support in principle the creation of new gTLDs, it must conveys to the ICANN Board and community a deep concept about the possible harmful effect on Internet end-users of a single massive expansion of gTLDs;

RESOLVED THAT the ALAC convey to the ICANN Board and community the dismay urgency of Atphasing-Large with in the new gTLD program in its current form, and explicitly advises that its implementation would be harmful to the public interest and specifically that of Internet end-users. We request that implementation of the program be suspended temporarily until necessary public-interest modifications are implemented to address the end-user concerns noted above.

Notes:

introduction of new gTLDs gradually, releasing no more than 25 every three months and that each such release be comprised of at least 30% community, support-eligible or "geo-region" TLDs

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RESOLVED THAT the ICANN community must be enable to monitor the progress of the releases, and that elements of the application process demonstrated to cause or allow harm or confusion to Internet end-users or conrtent/service providers must be correctable.

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Notes:

• Items marked in bold may be considered arbitrary values which are subject to review and consensus.
• The Summit declaration is available at http://www.atlarge.icann.org/files/atlarge/correspondence-05mar09-en.pdf

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  History:

A draft version of the first motion was submitted by Evan Leibovitch to the ALAC and NARALO email lists December 18.
In response to early comments, a slightly modified version of the motion was posted to this Wiki 

A second revision was created Dec 20 in reaction to community members who, while disagreeing strongly with elements of the gTLD program, believed that an actual halt or suspension of the program was ill-advised and that At-Large's main concerns about the scalability and possible end-user harms could be addressed by a combination of a staggered gTLD rollout combined with active community monitoring and ongoing program refinement.