Re: [soac-mapo] charter and mission

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I apologize for the mischaracterization.  Obviously I haven't been aware of all 
the positions on the issue.

Let me put it another way:  "It seemed that the MAPO mechanism in DAG4 was 
going to become final until the GAC objected."  I should have been less sloppy 
in my construction. 

Antony


On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

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> On 13 July 2010 17:08, Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> No-one has a strenuous objection to what's in DAG4 except the GAC.
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> Anthony,
> 
> The At-Large statement on new gTLDs, endorsed unanimously at the Summit 
> during the Mexico City Meeting (and still maintained as its official stance), 
> was quite clear:
> 
> We emphatically call for the complete abolition of the class of objections 
> based on morality and public order. We assert that ICANN has no business 
> being in (or delegating) the role of comparing relative morality and 
> conflicting human rights. 
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> 
> In my first message in this thread I stated that "[At-Large] generally took 
> the position that the MAPO process as-is should be scrapped". How does that 
> not constitute "strenuous objection"?
> 
> I offered a personal comment here that some (small) allowance for MAPO could 
> be mentioned in the Independent Objector role (it already exists in theory 
> but the DAG could make it explicit). But be very clear that At-Large is 
> wholeheartedly and emphatically against an explicit MAPO mechanism the DAG. 
> From what I have been reading on this list it appears that NCSG -- or at 
> least some of its prominent members -- also oppose MAPO in the DAG.
> 
> So I'd say that it's quite inaccurate to say that "no-one has a strenuous 
> objection". Indeed, I have personally witnessed some *very* strenuous 
> objection -- in Mexico, in Nairobi, in Brussels, and here on this list. Maybe 
> nobody noticed it (or cared) until the GAC signed on, but stakeholder 
> opposition to MAPO has been around for a long time.
> 
> Evan
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