Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] New version of the report-draft candidate -- now Version 5

[Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think not!

Um, I saw this "advocacy language" pleading and to tell the truth, it,
well....here's the thing.

The framework of this WG being what it is,  I can see how every single word
of some  proposals could hardly evade being classified as totally consisting
of "advocacy language".

So let's cut to the chase. Some of us associated with some proposals would
have to disavow their "day jobs" to escape the "taint".  And quite frankly
if we finger all the "interests", one would have to connive at error not to
recognize advocacy plain and simple.  So I shall classify all talk of
'advocacy language' as  'orwellian'.

I now say this. The sentences fingered as "advocacy language" spells out the
rational justification for the model, no more, no less. And the origination
of the rationale for new gTLDs is not mine; we merely seek to give it
substantive operational presence.

Carlton Samuels
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Richard Tindal <richardtindal@xxxxxx>wrote:

> To be consistent with the other proposals,   who removed advocacy language
> from their summaries in the body of the report,     I think the 2nd, 3rd and
> 4th sentences in the first paragraph of the Free Trade summary should also
> be removed.........
>
> *Free Trade Proposal Summary*
>
> The Free Trade Model proposes that limits on cross ownership (CO) and
> Vertical Integration (VI) are discarded.  If it is consumers who shall be
> the principal beneficiaries of new gTLDs, then ICANN has to believe that a
> priori restrictions on business models constrict the market and reduce
> consumer choice in an expanded domain name market place.  Abuse and harm
> to consumers are not endemic to any particular business model but rather a
> result of the dissolute behavior of actors in the marketplace. These can
> only be mitigated by rules that are certain with fair and assured
> enforcement.
>
> RT
>
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>
> all hail Margie and Marika!
>
> Marika updated the report and fixed a whole bunch of formatting problems in
> the draft i published last night.  the latest version is Version 5, out on
> the wiki at;
>
>
> https://st.icann.org/vert-integration-pdp/index.cgi?initial_report_snapshots
>
> this version is strictly a formatting revision, no content changes.  but
> it's the one you should use because line-numbers have changed a bit from my
> draft.
>
> thanks!
>
> mikey
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