Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] GAC Communique on JAS

[Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 December 2010 12:44, Richard Tindal <richardtindal@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> If the scoring threshold is lowered it will be easier for applicants to
> obtain community status on strings that should be available at the second
> level to a very wide variety of registrants.   A low score means that
> widely used terms could be captured by communities of opportunity who will
> then be prohibited from making second level names available to the general
> public.  This consequence of low community scoring is not in the public
> interest.
>

I don't think I accept this line of reasoning. If a community is to be so
self-limiting, then it can't really be a "community of opportunity"....



>  3.    A Low Score Will Allow Successful Objections to Legitimate
> Communities
>
>  The standards for successful Objection to a community application are
> based on the standards required to achieve the 14 point score.  If the
> scoring threshold is lowered it will be easier for groups, who may not be
> closely associated with the community, to successful object and block the
> applicant.   It is in the interest of real communities to have a high
> score.
>


This speaks more to deficiencies with the objection process than with the
applications themselves.

- Evan