Email sent to the At-Large list on December 16th
Greetings.
Several people worked on this since Cairo, so rather than holding on to it any longer I wanted to send it out to a broad group. It's a sort of guide to creating a draft document response to the new gTLD workbook. Only a guide! It's meant to be read in conjunction with the document itself to suggest areas in which the user community might want to elaborate (or not). For it to be most useful you still need the workbook document handy. For instance, there are things we've since discussed on various lists that aren't in this guide, for instance, from Danny:
"Working one's way through module 2 (the Applicant Information Form section), there is one question that is glaringly missing:
"Indicate whether 
the applicant or any of its (ii) officers, (iii) directors, or (iv) managers:
a. within the past ten years, has been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor related to financial activities, or has been judged by a court to have committed fraud or breach of fiduciary duty, or has been the subject of a judicial determination that is similar or related to any of these;
b. within the past ten years, has been disciplined by the government of its, her, or his domicile for conduct involving dishonesty or misuse of funds of others;
c. is currently involved in any judicial or regulatory proceeding that could result in a conviction, judgment, determination, or discipline of the type specified in (a) or (b); or
d. is the subject of a disqualification imposed by ICANN and in effect at the time of this application.
So, for instance, we should decide where we want to put that in.
In addition to some of the NCUC comments I have sent out over the last 24 hours or so, here are some URLs of others' perspectives on new gTLDs.
International Olympic Committee: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/pdf2Skbh839Jy.pdf
Registry Constituency: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/docnZV8Xn1mmo.doc
IDN Comment: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00055.html
Robin Gross: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00034.html
Wendy Chan: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00043.html
Unicode Technical Committee: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-guide/msg00021.html
Ron Andruff: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gtld-string/msg00001.html
After the call on Friday, I would like to propose a time for the working group to meet and discuss its responses to the attached document, to the discussion on the lists, and other matters, so that we can work up a statement by the deadline, which I believe has now been extended to Jan. 7 (we will clarify this in Friday's meeting).
Staff, may I ask that you translate this message into French and Spanish and distribute it so that we can get maximum community involvement.
Thanks
Beau Brendler