Re: [gtld-council] PDP Dec 05: Follow-up to 23 June

[Robin Gross <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I stated yesterday in the meeting, there must be a limitation on the 
*type* of objection that can stop an application for a new gtld (in 
addition to *who* can complain).

An objection to the string must be based on either law or 
technical/operational issues.  Otherwise, we swallow up all our attempts 
to narrow evaluation criteria to these issues and it becomes a free for 
all.

The language for #20 below still permits the 'Legion of Decency' type of 
actors or competitors to stop an application for non-legal reasons.  It 
encourages lobbying for and against applications - really bad idea.

Robin


philip.sheppard@xxxxxx wrote:

> How about this for clarity:
>
> "An application will be rejected if it is determined that
> there is opposition to it from among established
> institutions of the economic sector, or cultural community, and the degree
> of that opposition is substantial.
>
> Note
> Clarifies our intent
> Deletes redundant "language community" as it is subset of cultural
>
> Philip
>