<p dir="ltr">As per previous notes to Maria and Marilia, I'm interested in collaborating in elaborating on *underrepresentation of developing countries* under different perspectives: political, distributional (or international trade) and purely commercial (economies of scale).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Carlos Raúl</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 30, 2015 7:03 AM, "Norbert Klein" <<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net">nhklein@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 09/30/2015 06:56 PM, Rafik Dammak
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<div class="gmail_extra">Hi everyone,</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">trying to summarize the topics
suggested until now, I tried to capture comments as much as
possible but maybe I missed things.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- <b>Public Interest: </b></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><i><b>"</b>Can we ask the board how it
is coming with its research in the "global public interest".
In the annual mtg last where we asked the board about its
understanding of the global public interest, how it
determines, on what basis, etc. At that time, the board
said it was just getting started on compiling some research
that it would share and had hired Nora. So it would be
great if we could have an update or further conversation on
this concept, how it is determined and applies, etc.<b>"</b></i></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">there was several comments with that
regard indicating that a research is ongoing and mostly done
within ICANN, not looking outside . a consultation process is
planned<b> </b>and starting in Q4 to get community input and
continue till June 2016.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">-<b> Developing countries:</b></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">starting with the Nielsen report (<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-25-en" target="_blank"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-25-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-25-en</a></a>)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">"Nielsen's report confirms that Latin
America, Asia and Africa will likely be the great drivers of
new gTLD acceptance and use, while most registries are still
based in developed regions. There is a net transference of
resources taking place from the developing to the developed
world in the DNS industry. The problems that developing
regions face have been extensively explained. What is the
perception of the board? In the opinion of board members,
which concrete measures could be put in place? Why not even
suggestions from the JAS report have been implemented yet?
Would the board commit to a clear plan to address the current
imbalances before a new round of applications is launched?"</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">there was also comment that we can also
ask the Global Domain Division (GDD) during a GNSO session .
Others mentioned: knowledge imbalance, capacity building and
remediation mechanisms of imbalance in next rounds</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">about this issue, I would remind people
that we got lately 3 reports in relation to that, it will be
useful to go through them :</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- regarding next rounds <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-subsequent-prelim-2015-08-31-en" target="_blank"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-subsequent-prelim-2015-08-31-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-subsequent-prelim-2015-08-31-en</a></a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- review on previous new gTLD round: <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-draft-review-2015-09-23-en" target="_blank"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-draft-review-2015-09-23-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/new-gtld-draft-review-2015-09-23-en</a></a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- assessment of new gTLD program with
regard to competition: <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/competitive-effects-assessment-2015-09-28-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/competitive-effects-assessment-2015-09-28-en</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- <b>Human Rights</b></div>
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<p>"With the CCWP on HR we'll be publishing a new
report on ICANN and</p>
<p>human rights (comments still very welcome until
Wednesday 30 23:59</p>
<p>here: <a href="http://is.gd/gItc5W" target="_blank"><span>http://is.gd/gItc5W</span></a>
). So perhaps we can ask ICANN about how</p>
<p>they envisage living up to article 4 of the
articles of incorporation</p>
<p>and whether there are concrete plans to do or
develop:</p>
<p>1. A human rights policy</p>
<p>2. A human rights impact assessment</p>
<p>3. A full corporate social responsibility strategy</p>
<p>in order to live up to the existing commitments.
And whether they are</p>
<p>thinking of using the UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human</p>
<p>Rights for this. And of course: what is the
timeline for this."</p>
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<p>I would like to add comment about developing
countries and new gTLD program issue, there was a lot of
work done by NCSG on that matter within GNSO and we
succeeded in 2010 to get a joint working on new gTLD
applicant support, with the active participation of several
NCSG members.<br>
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A report was delivered with several recommendations , some
of them were approved in 2011 by the board :<br>
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- timeline for the working group is here <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/inactive/2011/jas" target="_blank"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/inactive/2011/jas" target="_blank">http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/inactive/2011/jas</a></a><br>
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- the report there <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/jas-final-report-2011-10-13-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/jas-final-report-2011-10-13-en</a><br>
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- the implementation is here <a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/candidate-support" target="_blank">http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/candidate-support</a>)</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">the result of the implementation was
satisfactory due partly that the program was implemented quite
late when the new gTLD program itself was starting and there
was no significant outreach to get more applicants from
developing regions.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">The same issue concerns having more
registrars from developing countries and there was last year
a consultation launched by ICANN staff <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/prjctgdduro/Project+Roadmap%3A+Supporting+the+Domain+Name+Industry+in+Underserved+Regions" target="_blank"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/prjctgdduro/Project+Roadmap%3A+Supporting+the+Domain+Name+Industry+in+Underserved+Regions" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/prjctgdduro/Project+Roadmap%3A+Supporting+the+Domain+Name+Industry+in+Underserved+Regions</a></a>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I would conclude about this that we
should leverage those existing initiatives to go further and
be effective.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">going back to the topics discussion, it
still going on and we should tune and refine the topics and
their descriptions. other suggestions are welcome too.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Best Regards,</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Rafik Dammak</div>
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