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With last night's passage of what's being called the "Hey, don't
forget us." resolution by a New York City planning agency - <a
href="http://bit.ly/OurBlog">see post</a> - Connecting.nyc Inc.,
the not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 to guide the
development of the city's TLD as a public interest resource, will be
focusing its attention in the coming months on point 5 of the 6
point resolution:<br>
<ul>
<li><b><big><big><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><b>that
the city carefully coordinate the development of its
Top Level Domain with the other cities that have
applied for their TLDs, seeking opportunities for</b><b>
standardizatio</b><b>n and the sharing of good TLD
governance practices</b>.</span></big></big></b><br>
</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/">Queens Community Board 3</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov"><http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov></a>, the local planning agency, had
passed an <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Empowerment_Resolution">Internet
Empowerment Resolution</a> in April 2001 calling for the
acquisition and development of the .nyc TLD as a public interest
resource. Last night, 11 years later, and with that resolution
finally on the road to fruition, the board passed another resolution
saying in essence: “Hey, we started this thing. Don’t forget us.”<br>
<br>
The new resolution calls for the city to activate and fund a
promised Community Advisory Board and assure that good domain names
- those that are short, descriptive and memorable - are provided to
the “city’s neighborhoods, community organizations, not-for-profit
institutions, and local small businesses.” <b>It calls for the city
to coordinate the development of the .nyc TLD with the 38 other
global cities that have applied for their TLDs</b>. And it
requests that a process be developed for recycling domain names so
as to assure their availability for future generations.<br>
<br>
<hr size="2" width="100%">The resolution:<br>
<br>
<div align="center"><span
style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A
Resolution in Support of the .nyc Top Level Domain</span><span
style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
</div>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-
by Queens Community Board 3, the City of New York, November 15,
2012 -</span><br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Whereas,
on April 19, 2001 Queens Community Board 3 passed an </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/page/62506/"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Internet
Empowerment Resolution</span></a><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
calling for the acquisition and development of the .nyc Top
Level Domain (TLD) as a public interest resource, and</span><br>
<br>
<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Whereas,
the City of New York submitted an application to the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the .nyc
TLD on June 12, 2012, and</span><br>
<br>
<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Whereas,
the City of New York plans to create a Community Advisory Board
to “encourage meaningful input into the development of the .nyc
strategy” and</span><br>
<br>
<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Whereas,
38 other cities have followed New York City’s initiative and
applied for their TLDs,</span><br>
<br>
<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Queens
Community Board 3 hereby endorses the following resolution:</span><br>
<br>
<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We
congratulate Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council for filing an
application for the .nyc TLD. </span><br>
<br>
<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">To
contribute to its success, Community Board 3 recommends:</span><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that
the .nyc TLD’s Community Advisory Board take a careful view of
this most important resource, and that it be provided with
adequate resources to assure its effective operation.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that
Community Boards, civic organizations, not-for-profit
entities, and local small businesses be represented on the
Community Advisory Board.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that
domain names that support civic life should be thoughtfully
reserved for use by the city’s neighborhoods, community
organizations, not-for-profit institutions, and local small
businesses.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that
civic not-for-profit organizations, and small businesses be
provided with adequate notification of domain name selection
periods, and the opportunity to select a good domain name.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that
the city carefully coordinate the development of its Top Level
Domain with the other cities that have applied for their TLDs,
seeking opportunities for standardization and the sharing of
good TLD governance practices.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that
a plan be formulated to assure that the .nyc TLD is a
sustainable resource: that domain names are recycled so they
are available to New Yorkers today and tomorrow.</span></li>
</ol>
<hr size="2" width="100%">Our work plan on point 5 will begin with
the following:<br>
<ul>
<li>Connect with the governments of the "sister cities" and
appraise them of the coordination task recommended by the
resolution. When making this connection we will point the cities
to some preliminary efforts, including the <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/102-transcripts2010/717-50">City-TLD
Governance and Best Practices</a> workshop we helped
facilitate at the 2010 IGF in Vilnius. <br>
</li>
<li>Complete the Side-By-Side comparison chart of city TLD
applicants - <a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhVMdzMAZzUQdFFwTDlpTXJ6Q2psejdMUkFoZDdNaFE#gid=0">see
here</a> (thoughts on a more graspable implementation of this
would be appreciated).</li>
<li>Reach out to those in sister-cities with existing ISOC
chapters (.abudhabi, amasterdam, .barcelona (Catalonia),
.berlin, .brussels, .budapest, .dubai, .helsinki, .london,
.madria, .melbourne, .nyc, .paris, .roma, .stockholm, .taipei,
and .tokyo) to seek their assistance in reaching the city
administrations.</li>
<li>Devise a plan for developing governance structures, best
practices, standards... with cities, civic society...<br>
</li>
<li>Seek a complementary event (e.g., IGF, ICANN, C-40) where a
face-to-face meeting for the 39 can be held.<br>
</li>
</ul>
This will be a big task for our small organization and we hope to
gain collaborators from members of civil society, especially ISOC
chapters in sister-TLD cities.<br>
<br>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <font face="Arial">Best,<br>
<br>
Tom Lowenhaupt<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial">----------------------------------------------- </font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial">Thomas Lowenhaupt, Founder
& Chair</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial">Connecting.nyc Inc.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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