<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks very much for drafting this, Farzaneh. It has my support and hopefully support of the NCSG PC as well. Thanks again!!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Robin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 12, 2016, at 1:05 PM, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi everyone <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have drafted yet another late public comment. It is a rough draft but I am sending it to get enough feedback. It is a complex matter and we might not have enough time to submit to PC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We only have 5 days (17 August is the deadline). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So what is the public comment about? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In a nutshell, at the moment if you want to register the domain name [in.love] you have to first request the government of India for approval because their country code is ".IN". This has resulted in a bunch of "reserved" domain names. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In this public comment, we need to say whether we approve of the criteria that ICANN has come up with to avoid confusion between generic two letter domain names and corresponding country codes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think criterion number 1 is a disaster and it is drafted in a way that entitles all the governments and cctld operators (which are sometimes businesses) to two letter second level domain in new gtlds, for no good reason. You might not agree with me or think that I have gotten something wrong. please let me know.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If this draft is not too bad and we get enough comments on it, we can submit it to NCSG PC. If not I will submit it myself and name whoever endorses it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the doc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ynHrEmG2l1_Zas6093VsPIKKEVqn_SMU-nkgQwcY7wQ/edit?usp=sharing" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ynHrEmG2l1_Zas6093VsPIKKEVqn_SMU-nkgQwcY7wQ/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best <br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Farzaneh</div>
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