Fwd: [council] new gTLD Program Committee resolution regarding Specification 13 of the new gTLD registry agreement

[McTim]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at egyptig.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The board's resolution on specification 13 of the new gTLD registry
> agreement is going to be a discussion topic on tomorrow's irregularly
> scheduled GNSO council call. This resolution is specific to .Brand
> registries, a model that was (as far as I can tell) not taken into
> consideration back in 2007 when the GNSO WG on Introduction of new gTLDs
> concluded its work.
>
> The ICANN board has delayed implementation of this resolution for 45 days
> pending feedback from the GNSO Council on whether the council believes this
> resolution conflicts with policies developed in the GNSO, or not.
> Personally, I'm somewhat divided on whether I have substantive difficulties
> with this resolution or not and am keen to hear others thoughts (from both
> in and out of NCSG).

I have no objection to it.  It seems incredible to me that a .Brand
MUST use Registrars at all!



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Cheers,

McTim
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