[Chapter-delegates] FYI - ISOC statement about on Internet blocking measures in Catalonia, Spain

[Evan Leibovitch]

It didn't hurt that .CAT's most energetic champion sat on the ICANN Board
for four years. The application for .CAT was initiated, coincidentally,
very soon after his term on the Board expired.

​A casual observer of domains at the time would be astonished that of all
the indigenous and ​distinct cultural societies in the world without their
own country, ICANN uniquely sought TLD treatment for this one without any
public consultation. The fact that this odd TLD was also grotesquely
confusing with a very common English-language word further compounded the
puzzle. Whether or not there was any insider preferential treatment going
on within ICANN to make .CAT happen, it massively appeared that way from
the outside. The delegation made so little logical sense otherwise.

- Evan
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