Re: [npoc-voice] .health gTLD: NPOC Policy Committee Chair Activity Report

[Olévié Kouami <olivierkouami@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam and well done !
You reall one of the best among us ;-)
and thank you for your commitment in this .health affair.
I am certainly and deeply convince that most of us are really appreciating
the challenges we are facing in the ICANN world.
I'm waiting for the next report.
Cheers !
-Olevie-


2014-10-15 17:18 GMT+00:00 Sam Lanfranco <lanfran@xxxxxxxx>:

>
> *NPOC Policy Committee Chair Activity Report: gTLD .health*
>
> As part of an expanded scope of activities by the NPOC Policy Committee
> the Chair will post activity reports to the NPOC community via the
> npoc-voice email list. Activity reports will be of two types. Some activity
> reports will be with regard to activities within ICANN that are of
> importance to the NPOC community. Some activity reports will be about
> concerns that originate within the NPOC community and are with regard to
> ICANN policy or actions that impact on the mission, vision, and work of
> NPOC community organizations. In some instances the activity report will
> deal with Internet governance and Internet ecosystem issues outside the
> scope of ICANN but will be explored as a contribution to NPOC community
> awareness and engagement in venues outside ICANN.
>
> This first activity report is in response to concerns expressed by the
> global health community with regard to the ICANN plans to award the generic
> top level domain string (gTLD) .health to a private company, DOTHEALTH LLC.
>
> See:
> https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/495
>
> There has been a long history of constituency opposition to the issuance
> of a .health gTLD. Thus far the objections have been rejected, and much of
> the global health community feels that the objection process itself was
> flawed. At the current time there is evidence that ICANN's Goverenmental
> Advisory Committee (CAG) is also concerned about .health and possibly other
> health related gTLDs. Since both GAC deliberations, and ICANN's contracting
> process are confidential the global health community stakeholders are
> neither parties to the deliberations, nor information, about the status of
> GAC deliberations or the contracting process.
>
> As a result the global health community is taking the initiative to
> national level and focusing their efforts on dialogue with their individual
> national members of GAC, and with their national organs of government that
> are associated with GAC. During the October ICANN51 meetings in Los Angeles
> the global health community has circulated GAC contact information to its
> members. By various electronic means information has gone out to over
> 13,000 individuals and 2,300 organizations across over 170 countries.
>
> NPOC will assist in tracking the flow and distribution of global health
> care community contacts with its respective GAC members in an effort to
> measure and evaluate the extent of effort by this identified community as
> it deals with this ICANN DNS policy and implementation issue. A further
> activity report will be posted when the data warrants, or the issue is
> resolved.
>
> Sam Lanfranco, Chair,
> NPOC Policy Committee
>



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Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI
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