[NCSG-PC] New gTLD Applicant Guidebook

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi All,

Following in Tapani's footsteps, I want to send an update as well. /Our 
NCSG Comments to the SubPro IRT about the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook 
were long and comprehensive, and are making an impact!
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While not everything we recommended in being incorporated, many, many of 
our comments are resulting in changes that make the New gTLD Applicant 
Guidebook more readable, fairer, and more reflective of real balance 
between Applicants and those who might raise questions about their New 
gTLD applications (including Noncommercial Communities).

Here are a few of the changes that resulted recently:

- Privacy and ensuring that the need for ICANN, as the revealer of 
information about Applicants, to consider the needs of the Applicant in 
addition to the requestor - extensive edits*.  Tx you Michaela!*

- Many changes and modifications to the Objections Procedure (a long and 
expensive arbitration used for Community Objections, Legal Rights 
Objections, and String Confusion Objections -- no automatic 
consolidation of objections, allowing of extra evidence and hearings if 
necessary and reasonable, and more being discussed.

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I'll continue to send updates. If anyone can join me in the SubPro IRT 
meetings, it would be very useful as they are twice a week now, and I 
can only attend once a week.

Best, Kathy
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