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Consumer Reports WebWatch Joins Pushback Against GNSO Final Report
Fri, 10/26/2007 - 00:33 — dan
Consumer Reports WebWatch has joined the coalition in opposition to the GNSO final report on New gTLD policy, and we welcome them. Their statement is found here:
WebWatch's Statement on New General Top Level Domains
Highlights:
"WebWatch believes in consumer choice and freedom. With proper implementation and consumer education we believe the addition of new domain names will benefit consumers and create positive development for the Internet.
However, we cannot support the current GNSO Report on New TLDs, and strongly recommend the ICANN board send the report back to the GNSO for reconsideration and redrafting."
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"III. Statements of agreement and disagreement with other constituencies.
We agree with the Non-Commercial Users Constituency’s assessment of recommendation 6, found on page 29 of the GNSO final report Part B."
[Note: Recommendation 6 is the one that contains references to "morality" and "pubic order" as criteria to include in evaluating gTLD applications, and is one of the primary origins of the Keep The Core Neutral coalition's objections to the proposed policy from the GNSO.]