Re: [soac-mapo] A proposal: GLOS

[Evan Leibovitch <evan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 September 2010 12:22, Stuart Lawley <stuart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> A list will not work for the reasons mentioned by Avri.
> There is little chance that the list will be inclusive enough to include
> all derivatives and many would be submitters will be too squeamish
> (understandably) to submit many of the outrageous terms linked to subject
> like Pedophilia etc.
>

.... but not too sqeamish to be the subject of an $185K TLD proposal?

Nevertheless, it's a reasonable point. Perhaps a window could be offered,
just in case, that would give objectors a small period of time (say, 30
days) from the time an application is made to register appropriate entries
in GLOS before the report is given to the applicant. This could happen in
parallel to other early components of the application (such as its checking
against the Clearinghouse).

This way, objectors would not necessarily have to think of every possible
disgusting string in advance -- just ones being proposed. It has the
downside of not letting applicants know in advance all the possible
objections to their string before they apply -- however they don't know that
under the current regime either. On the positive side, such a window would
also address Avri's concerns about the total size of the database getting
too big since many orgs may simply choose to wait until they see an
objectionable application to register their objection in GLOS.

- Evan