[PC-NCSG] Auctions proceeds Drafting will start soon....

[Sam Lanfranco]

At the risk of repeating myself (or the obvious) there are three legs to 
the foundations that NCSG (and GNSO) can build on here and they do not 
require returning to Rawls )or Sen), or going back to Mills, etc., 
....and they do not require either a definition of the public interest 
or that black swan of the idea recipient. We decide what are the set of 
principles we wish to build from and we build. I propose, to focus the 
discussion, the following three principles:

1. When gTLD candidates do not use a private auction, the funds come to 
ICANN and commercial ends carry little weight in determining their use.
2. Howsoever defined, the funds go to supporting greater access to the 
Internet and involvement in Internet governance on the part of 
marginalized populations and regions.
3. As in all cases of policy, the Board does not make policy here but 
implements policy developed bottom up in a multistakeholder process.

 From an NCSG standpoint I see #1 as easy, #2 as a good focus of 
discussion, and #3 as a no-brainer. What would follow, of course, would 
be designing an implementation process that was efficient and effective, 
and was faithful to the decisions around #2.

Sam