Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] New Revised SRSU Text

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the .ngo issue.

I would like to shed some light on the .ngo discussion by observing 
that I am in possession of an RFI by an NGO (who's name is not 
trademarked) which, upon several readings, appears to solicit 
responses from potential providers of what I view as a restricted, 
single-registrant, single-user TLD, consistent with, except for the 
use of a brand as the criteria for existence (and presumably, for any 
such application prevailing in any string contention set), the 
.bRO-SRSU model offered by Kristina.
It is the case that there is at least one NGO which is informed, and 
consents in principle, to policy development favoring the type of 
application it seeks to submit to ICANN.
The information came to me directly from the NGO in question, and was 
not solicited.
I don't think this means the .xRO-WXYZ drill is anywhere close to 
having final values for {x, W, X, Y, and Z} or the associated 
meanings, but it is no longer a proof by assertion that there exists a 
party qualified for, and seeking, a ".ngo".
Eric