[PC-NCSG] Fwd: [council] Two Letter gTLD Domains

[Poncelet Ileleji]

Hello Amr,

I concur on this and we should really discuss it in next call.

Poncelet

On 29 August 2016 at 23:44, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at egyptig.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This just in from the Council list. I believe we should encourage
> discussion and actively engage on this, particularly since it was the work
> of some of our members that helped prompt the topic being brought up.
>
> I know the topics are piling up, but this is also something we should
> probably go over during our monthly call.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Amr
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Phil Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com>
> *Subject: **[council] Two Letter gTLD Domains*
> *Date: *August 30, 2016 at 1:19:13 AM GMT+2
> *To: *"council at gnso.icann.org" <council at gnso.icann.org>
>
> Council colleagues:
>
> Over the weekend Milton Mueller posted a rather provocative blog at
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/08/26/another-government-land-
> grab-in-the-name-space/ , concerning the just-closed comment period on
> Proposed Measures for Letter/Letter Two-Character ASCII Labels to Avoid
> Confusion with Corresponding Country Codes (at
> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/proposed-measures-
> two-char-2016-07-08-en). It prompted me to review the filed comments, and
> I noted that the NCSG, IPC, and registry SG all came out against aspects of
> the staff proposal that concerns Prof. Mueller.
>
> While this item is not on our agenda for the September 1st call, I would
> hope that we can at least begin a preliminary discussion during the
> concluding AOB section. I would like to better understand the historic
> context for the current proposal. Beyond the specifics of the proposal, my
> more general concern is that ICANN may be moving to implement a general
> policy for gTLDs that originates from ICANN staff rather than a PDP, and
> that apparently there is not even GAC Consensus Advice to which the
> proposal is responding.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Philip
>
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