.PARIS comment: "Drawing" Proposal and Public Interest
I forward this comment from Jean-Philippe Clément, ICT project manager, City of Paris. The signed document is attached. Start of forwarded message --------------------------------------- To the members and advisers of the New gTLD Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors “Drawing” Proposal and Public Interest Ladies and Gentlemen,On behalf of the .PARIS TLD Project, I wish to reiterate the point made by Mr. Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, in his letter of February 8, 2012, to Dr. Steve Crocker (please see http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/missika-to-crocker-08feb12-en)A steward of a public resource must give priority to the public interest. It is inappropriate to set public policy priorities by way of a random process. While the present “Drawing” proposal correctly identifies the introduction of IDN TLDs as a public-interest priority, it fails to make other necessary distinctions. These include: 1. Distinction between projects that rest upon a credible public-interest governance model and projects with no guarantees of public accountability. The gTLD applications made or supported by public authorities have intrinsic public-interest governance.
2. Distinction between projects serving a widely shared interest and
those serving an individual party’s self-interest. It is a generally
accepted principle of public management that the larger community
interest takes precedence over the narrow self-interest.
3. Distinction based on affected parties’ preferences. A self-selected time window later in the process can be better than a random chance of early processing. It is possible to accommodate preferences of relative or absolute positioning to a large degree. Applicants must be given the opportunity to express those preferences. I urge the ICANN Board New gTLD Committee to revise the current proposal based on the criteria above. Yours truly, Jean-Philippe Clément Secrétariat Général Chargé de mission TICC --------------------------------------- End of forwarded message -- CORE Internet Council of Registrars http://corenic.org WTC II, 29 route de Pre-Bois, CH-1215 Geneva, Switzerland Tel +4122 929-5744 Fax +4122 929-5745 secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxx Attachment:
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