Fwd: ICANN Public Comment - Base Registry Agreement Comment

[Tomslin Samme-Nlar]

Sharing Kathy's comment to the wider membership.

Remain blessed,
Tomslin

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From: Kathy Kleiman <Kathy at kathykleiman.com>
Date: Sat, 19 July 2025, 07:37
Subject: ICANN Public Comment - Base Registry Agreement Comment
To: Tomslin Samme-Nlar <mesumbeslin at gmail.com>, ncsg-pc <
ncsg-pc at lists.ncsg.is>


Hi Tomslin and All,

ICANN will be closing comments for the *Proposed Next Round Base gTLD
Registry Agreement - Public Comment 1 of 2 *on Monday.

I have written a pretty straightforward comment for the NCSG.  It's based
on a phrase change recommended by the SubPro Working Group. In the first
round, *very few of the private Public Interest Commitments offered by
applicants had anything to do with the public interest. *Most of them had
something to do with marketing and increased intellectual property
protections - far beyond anything fair or reasonable.

I pushed for these to be renamed to what they are - Registry Voluntary
Commitments or RVCs -- and the SubPro Working Group agreed and expressly
used this term in its recommendations.

Unfortunately, the Registries did not use it in their new Registry
Agreement draft, and they should. Hence the short comment and here's the
link in Google Docs,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AvLW5O4wmA4jZEIKVsChbB5u2GLm4sB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114275943287326487460&rtpof=true&sd=true

Due Monday; please review and let's submit!

Best, Kathy
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