gTLD-MoU News

On the gTLD-MoU web site (http://www.gtld-mou.org), the
following is new or deserves mention:

1. Revision 11 of the draft application form for new gTLD 
Registrars is available at:

http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/apply.htm

2. A draft of the latest [Revised] Substantive Guidelines 
Concerning Administrative Domain Name Challenge Panels is 
available at:

http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/racps.htm

3. The latter is also part of (Appendix D) of a draft of the
CORE-MoU which is available at:

http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/core-mou.htm

4. There have been queries about how CORE will develop the
necessary repository service features. The current ideas
on this are in Appendix E of the CORE-MoU (URL above). Dates
mentioned in this draft will obviously need to be readjusted
based on the Registrar application phase dates.

5. Appendix C of the draft of the CORE-MoU contains a draft
"Registration Agreement and Application Form for Assignment of
Second Level Domain Names in a Generic Top Level Domain" which
would be used for future registration of domain names in 
CORE-gTLDs. Please note that future registrants may, in their 
application form, "decline a mandatory submission to arbitration."

Robert

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Robert Shaw (shaw at itu.int)
Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure
International Telecommunication Union (http://www.itu.int)
Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland