Proposed Renewal of .TRAVEL Sponsored TLD Registry Agreement

[Rook Media <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN:

I am writing in regard to the Proposed Renewal of .TRAVEL Sponsored TLD 
Registry Agreement issued for public comment on May 12, 2015.
I am strongly opposed to the inclusion of a modified version of the new 
gTLD rights protection mechanisms in Specification 7 of the proposed RA, 
especially Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS).
All the new gTLD RPMs were implementation details of the new gTLD 
program and are not ICANN consensus policies applicable to all 
registries and registrars. The URS can become a consensus policy only 
after a full policy development process (PDP) engaged in by the entire 
ICANN community of stakeholders. The ICANN community has not even 
received the new gTLD RPM Issues Report that staff will be providing to 
the GNSO in September 2015.
Imposing URS on an incumbent gTLD via the contracting process is an 
absolutely unacceptable staff intervention into the policymaking 
process. Approval of this draft contract would constitute top-down, 
staff-driven policymaking in direct violation of ICANN’s stated 
commitment to the bottom-up, private sector led policy development process.
Therefore, the .Travel renewal RA should be referred for Board 
consideration only after Specification 7/URS has been removed from the 
agreement, along with all other provisions derived from the new gTLD RA 
that are not established consensus policies applicable to incumbent gTLDs.
Thank you for your consideration of my views.

Sincerely,

Rook Media GmbH