Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Competition authorities

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are 53 political jurisdictions in Africa. Assuming that the
prerequisite number consent to one or more applications for .africa,
to which is reference to a competition authority made, under a
reference to competition authority model?

Why would reference not be made to the competition authorities of
jurisdictions which did not approve one or more applications?

If the answer includes reference to the United States and its
competition authority, are there circumstances where reference is made
to two or more competition authorities, neither of which is the United
States competition authority?

Turning to the two or more applications, forming a contention set of
size two or more, presenting two or more distinct competition models,
and two or more competition authorities, should reference to two or
more competition authorities occur before resolution of the string
contention set, simultaneously, or after?

If the answer is "after", as the string contention process is by
design indifferent to any properties of an application other than
whether the application is made as a community-based type of
application, then information from all but one of the possible
references to competition authorities on the models present in the
contention set is, by design, not available for evaluation.

As a proposed change to the entire evaluation process, which design
change is proposed? A change that adds some steps before completion of
the string evaluation, or a change that does not use information
concerning competition authorities?

What changes to the model offered by Afilias for ".asia" would, if
made in the eventual new gTLD round, cause reference to one or more
competition authorities to be necessary under the reference to
competition authority model, and to which competition authorities?

Eric