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The At-Large Advisory Committee is extremely disappointed by the latest release of the new Draft Applicant Guidebook. In significant ways its changes reflect a deliberate step backwards, away from transparency and accountability, and towards secrecy and arbitrary action. Even more importantly, the new guidebook fails at any more than cosmetic accommodation of critical, Board-mandated policy work undertaken by ICANN's grassroots grass-roots community.

After the last DAG was released, the Board requested feedback on two important issues: assistance to gTLD applicants in developing economies, and changing the process of dealing with TLD strings that might be considered obscene or objectionable (the so-called "Morality and Public Order" category of objection). Both these issues were immediately take taken up by cross-community groups, which in unprecedented manner produced specific and concrete changes to the application process that would be consistent with existing mandates while addressing community concerns about these two important issues. In both cases, public comment has been essentially ignored,

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