Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] DAGv4 is out

["Phil Buckingham" <pjbuckingham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Eric.

As a potential applicant for .royal  I can now finally finally start to
structure a company around the application .
For those individuals , businesses wishing to involved in this application,
within these new rules , please contact me .
I will at ICANN Brussels meet Saturday 19 June through Thursday 24 June .

In return my company is looking to invest in , advise on any potential ,
other new gTLD applications.
I , or my company, no longer have , any involvement in, control of, any
ICANN accredited registrar, reseller or any of its affiliates .

What this indicates to me is the urgency and necessity for all participants
of this VI WG , to  drop their vested interests , working towards full (
100%) cross ownership  , subject to very strict rules on audit ,  separation
of duties, pricing, compliance , competition rules , elimination of all 
known ,
current harms and a very  tough financial and technical evaluation for all
new applications -with a clear and concise proposal , with a 75% special
resolution vote from all participants of this VI WG to present to the ICANN
Board at its meeting in Colombia in November / December 2010.

regards

Phil Buckingham


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Brunner-Williams" <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:25 AM
Subject: [gnso-vi-feb10] DAGv4 is out


> See Page 1-17:
> "Restrictions on Registrar Cross-Ownership1 -- Applications will not
> be considered from any of the following:
>
> 1.    ICANN-accredited registrars or their Affiliates;
> 2.    Entities controlling or Beneficially Owning more than 2% of any
> class of securities of an ICANN- accredited registrar or any of its
> Affiliates; or
> 3.    Entities where 2% or more of voting securities are beneficially
> owned by an ICANN-accredited registrar or any of its Affiliates.
>
> Further, applications where the applicant has engaged an
> ICANN-accredited registrar, reseller, or any other form of distributor
> or any of their Affiliates (or any person or entity acting on their
> behalf) to provide any registry services for the TLD will not be approved.
>
> “Affiliate” means a person or entity that, directly or indirectly,
> through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is
> under common control with, the person or entity specified.
>
> “Control” (including as used in the terms “controlled by” and “under
> common control with”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of
> the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
> policies of a person or entity, whether through the ownership of
> securities, as trustee or executor, by serving as a member of a board
> of directors or equivalent governing body, by contract, by credit
> arrangement or otherwise.
>
> A person or entity that possesses “Beneficial Ownership” of a security
> includes any person who, directly or indirectly, through any contract,
> arrangement, understanding, relationship, or otherwise has or shares
> (A) voting power which includes the power to vote, or to direct the
> voting of, such security; and/or (B) investment power which includes
> the power to dispose, or to direct the disposition of, such security."
>
> Eric