Re: [soac-mapo] Third "draft recommendation" (individual government objections)

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are several things that I like about Bertrand's idea:

1. It provides a measure of legitimacy for something that could happen anyway 
-- blocking of TLDs at the national level.
2. It provides a window and a method to do so -- in other words, it puts the 
onus on governments to state their objections at a particular time, and 
(presumably) come up with publicly-stated reasons for doing so.  

What this will do is take some of the arbitrariness out of blocking.  It will 
take a little more than "we don't like it," and in the case where a government 
says nothing during the evaluation/objection period, a subsequent blocking 
based on the string alone will be seen as somewhat thin and capricious.


On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> It seems to me that Bertrand’s suggestions are helpful.  Does anyone 
> disagree?  I do have one question though: what is meant by ‘introduction 
> process’?  Is that the ‘Initial Evaluation Process’ or something different?  
> We should use a term that is used in AGv4.
>  
> Chuck
>  
> From: owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Bertrand de La Chapelle
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 8:23 AM
> To: Marika Konings
> Cc: soac-mapo@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [soac-mapo] Third "draft recommendation" (individual government 
> objections)
>  
> Marika,
>  
> The third "draft recommendation" listed below says : 
>  
> Draft Recommendation: Clarify that in the current Draft Applicant Guidebook, 
> Individual governments are able to file an objection based on a national 
> concern. At the end of the day, national governments will block what they 
> don't like, but they have to be heard and make their case and the potential 
> impact it might have.
>  
> I am not sure the DAG 4 allows this already. Or have I missed something ?
>  
> The current DAG envisages only the four specific types of objection : string 
> confusion, legal rights, MaPO and community. The MaPO objection process is 
> the one we are talking about here (even if renamed). But in the current MaPO 
> wording, there is no possibility, as far as I understand, for a particular 
> government to voice an objection that is not linked to a general 
> objectionability (according to principles of international law), but related 
> to its own public interest concerns (ie :"sensitivities" to take the GAC 
> wording).
>  
> If the group considers, as Konstatinos rightly put it, that : governments 
> "have to be heard and make their case and the potential impact it might 
> have", we may need to clarify the conditions for such an objection by one or 
> a few governments.  
>  
> So I suppose that what we actually mean is the following :
>  
> Draft recommendation : The Applicant Guidebook should allow individual 
> governments to file an objection based on specific national public interest 
> concerns.
>  
> On a side note, the wording of the second sentence could be improved by 
> saying something like : 
>  
> Individual governments may, in the last resort, block by law TLDs raising 
> public interest concerns at the national level, but they have to be heard in 
> the introduction process and be provided the opportunity to make their case 
> and describe the potential impact the TLD might have.
>  
> In other words, the idea is to provide the avenue for a fair hearing of 
> governments concerns in the introductory process, recognizing that if the 
> string is approved nonetheless, they will retain in any case the possibility 
> to block.
>  
> I hope this helps.
>  
> Best
>  
> Bertrand
>  
>  
> 
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Marika Konings <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Please find below the draft recommendations that came out of today’s CWG Rec 
> 6 WG meeting. For those on the call, please let me know if I’ve missed or 
> misstated anything. For those of you that were not on the call, if you do not 
> agree with one or more of these draft recommendations, please share your 
> objection and reason for objection with the mailing list. 
> 
> USE OF MORALITY & PUBLIC ORDER TERMS 
> 
> Draft Recommendation: Remove the references to Morality & Public Order in the 
> Draft Applicant Guidebook as far as these are being used as an international 
> standard and replace them with the term ‘Public Order Objections’. Further 
> details about what is meant with ‘Public Order Objection’ would need to be 
> worked out to ensure that it does not create any confusion or contravene 
> other existing principles such as principle G.
> 
> INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW 
> 
> Draft Recommendation: Give serious consideration to other treaties to be 
> added as examples (see list circulated by Marilyn Cade) in the Draft 
> Applicant Guidebook, noting that these should serve as examples and not be 
> interpreted as an exhaustive list.
> 
> Draft Recommendation: Clarify that in the current Draft Applicant Guidebook, 
> Individual governments are able to file an objection based on a national 
> concern. At the end of the day, national governments will block what they 
> don't like, but they have to be heard and make their case and the potential 
> impact it might have.
> 
> Draft Recommendation: Clarify terminology by using Principles of 
> International Law instead of International Principles of law to make it 
> consistent with what GNSO intended (possible implications to be further 
> discussed in meeting tomorrow with Jones Day lawyer)
> 
> HIGH BOARD TRESHOLD FOR APPROVING / REJECTING
> 
> Draft Recommendation [For further discussion on tomorrow’s meeting]: To 
> reject a string for which a recommendation 6 objection has been filed, there 
> should be a higher threshold of the board to approve a string / there should 
> be a higher threshold to reject a string / a sub-set might require a higher 
> threshold to approve.
> 
> If you cannot participate in tomorrow’s meeting in which Carroll Dorgan from 
> Jones Day will participate, please share any questions you would like to ask 
> him with the mailing list so these can be put forward if time allows.
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Marika
> 
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