about Regional Initiatives in the New gTLD Process

[HiroHOTTA <hotta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am supportive of Edmon Chung's comments as in 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/6gtld-evaluation/msg00000.html and 
comments from Baasansuren Burmaa and Kenny Huang.

My specific comments follow :

"2.2.1.4.2 Geographic Names Requiring Government Support" in 
Module 2 says that "documentation of support will be required 
from at least 60% of the respective national governments in the 
region".

This requirement is very difficult to achieve or in some cases 
irrelevant due to the following reasons :
- Governments have inclination not to write any documents to a 
  private company, especially about the topic they are not very 
  much interested in.  This means many of the governments will 
  not send "no objection" document even if they have no objection.
- Especially for IDN TLDs, many governments will not be very 
  interested and it's unlikely that no objection document will 
  be written by such governments.
- Appropriateness of IDN TLDs cannot be decided by other 
  governments than those who use the characters of the specific 
  IDN TLD.  For example, Japanese string TLD for .asia will not 
  interest other governments than Japanese one.  Such governments 
  cannot decide the appropriateness of the Japanese TLD string, 
  and they will not write no objection document.

Hiro Hotta
JPRS