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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Brian, <br>
<br>
nice spin. <br>
<br>
It would have been in the interest of the whole process to
represent the issues fairly without bias. The existing RPMs had
been developed and agreed upon with the consent and active
participation of the IPC and BC. It was agreed at the time that
while not perfect, they were sufficient. Certain aspects now on
the table again were summarily rejected. As Fadi had correctly
recognized and stated in Amsterdam, these proposals are a second
bite of the apple - outside of all community consensus to the sole
benefit of one interest group and at the cost of all others. <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Volker<br>
<br>
<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear
all:</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As
promised on our last Council tel<a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="Verdatum"></a>econference, here is written feedback
from the IPC with respect to the current draft response to
Fadi Chehadé on strawman solution and limited preventative
registrations proposal. More specifically, this is a
critique of the draft GNSO Council statement on the strawman
which we feel does not accurately reflect a consensus or
considered analysis as urged by Chair Crocker.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
list is non-exhaustive and our intent is to demonstrate that
there are a number of flaws in the current draft that we
should address as a Council.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
IPC is concerned with the statement that the strawman
solution represents “expansion of trademark rights beyond
law.” Apart from being a legal conclusion, it implies that
the strawman is composed of solutions or protections to
which trademark owners have no legal right. To the
contrary, trademark owners have the legal right to prevent
infringement of their marks, and the rights protection
mechanisms being established as part of the new gTLD program
are founded on this fundamental right. The Strawman merely
addresses the implementation of this policy, not its
extension or expansion.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
IPC believes the use of the term “majority” throughout the
letter is misleading as it minimizes the fact that an entire
Stakeholder Group—indeed the Stakeholder Group whose members
will bear the greatest economic impact from inadequate
rights protection mechanisms—unanimously agrees that
additional rights protection mechanisms are essential. Put
another way, a vote should be necessary before asserting
that a “majority of the Council” feels a certain way,
particularly the presumption that “protection policies for
new gTLDs are sufficient and need not be revisited.” It is
also important to note that not all stakeholder groups or
constituencies submitted comments in the public comment
forum, so we should not assume that there is a majority in
support. It might be an overstatement. Of the statements
that were submitted, in addition to the BC/IPC comments, the
ISPC "endorsed the intent and critical importance of
preventing fraudulent registrations and reducing defensive
measures and agrees that the RPMs currently in the AGB may
be improved; however, ISPCP is neutral on the subject of
specific RPMs." The use of the term "majority" usually
refers to a majority in each house. However, With the IPC,
ISP and BC taking a different approach, we believe the
statement of "majority " in support of the letter is not
really accurate. Sending the letter as written would go
against the spirit of the carefully thought-out comments of
these groups.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There
is a difference between “agree[ment] to socialize these
[proposals] to the rest of the GNSO” as Dr. Crocker is
quoted as saying and the requisite GNSO Council support
asserted in the draft letter. Indeed, here are a few more
compelling and recent quotes from Fadi Chehadé during the
NCPH intersessional meeting, “… I still believe is an issue,
I don't believe that the claims or the things that you
brought to my attention, you know, are not right. Quite the
opposite, I think they're very right, that's why I engaged,
that's why I jumped on it.” “Some of the things that came
out of the strawman discussions make sense and are
implementation decisions.” And, “unless the community
vehemently disagrees … that work will not be counted out, we
will look at it in good faith.” Most recently, in Mr.
Chehadé’s February 13, 2013 video blog, he affirmed that the
Strawman Proposal is absolutely legitimate and that the
statements he made in Amsterdam on this topic were taken out
of context. He confirmed that his “mistake” was in the way
he convened the meetings, and that the work on the Strawman
is “not throw away work”, but rather, it is important work.
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
letter cites ICANN’s goal of advancing “competition in the
domain name industry,” but fails to reflect temperance with
the new gTLD policy toward not infringing the legal rights
of others which advances consumer trust of the system.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
letter is silent with respect to the thirty-day sunrise
notice period—an aspect of the strawman solution that most
public comments seem to agree is a noncontroversial
implementation detail. </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Comments
on Claims 1 and Claims 2 appear seriously inaccurate and
seems to ignore the contours of the process and raise a
number of implementation questions as policy matters—“How
would payments be made and allocated? How do Registries and
Registrars adapt their technical systems…” etc.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Claims
2 imposes fewer obligations and offers fewer benefits than
Claims 1. Thus, “lightweight” seems apt to us.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Most
conventional dictionaries define “disenfranchise” as
follows, “to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or
some privilege or immunity; especially: to deprive of the
right to vote.” The strawman has nothing to do with the
right to vote. So what is the legal right to which you are
referring here? If what is meant is that adopting the
Strawman would deprive any stakeholder of a voice in the
development of the implementation of the policy that
intellectual property should be protected in the new gTLD,
then that would ignore the input of numerous stakeholders.
If anything, the Strawman process has enfranchised more
concerned parties than ever before.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
IPC fervently disagrees with dismissal of the Limited
Preventative Registration proposal as a “blocking
mechanism.” Again, this also seems seriously inaccurate and
appears to ignore the contours of the proposal. To sum up,
it is a low-cost bulk sunrise registration. It would
provide precisely the same benefits to brand owners as
participation in each individual new gTLD sunrise period to
which they are qualified to participate in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"
style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
statement that this is entirely "a matter of policy" ignores
the fact that the Strawman proposal resulted from “<b><i>implementation</i></b>
discussions on the Trademark Clearinghouse and its
associated rights protection mechanism.” <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/tmch-strawman-30nov12-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/tmch-strawman-30nov12-en.htm</a>.
The fact that Mr. Chehadé has asked the GNSO Council for
input on the Strawman proposal does not now turn it into a
policy matter. In fact, the Limited Preventative
Registration mechanism was left out of the Strawman proposal
not because it was considered policy, but rather simply
because it did not achieve consensus among the participants
in the implementation meetings. It is thus completely within
the Council's purview to provide substantive input on these
issues without resorting to a PDP. Indeed, the original
rights protection mechanisms did not stem from a PDP, but
from an informal GNSO process (the <b><i>Implementation </i></b>Recommendation
Team). Formation of a working group to explore these
implementation issues substantively is an option that has
not been fully explored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
response ignores the substantial number of comments
submitted during the public comment forum—which reflect a
significant interest in looking at this issue further from
inside and, significantly, outside the IP community. For
example, the ALAC statement supports a number of elements of
the proposal, and encourages the GNSO to fairly evaluate
them. The proposed GNSO letter does not do so.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>From:</b></span> <span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a
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<b>Sent:</b></span> <span
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<b>To:</b></span> <span
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<b>Subject:</b></span> <span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RE:
[council] Current draft of Fadi's requested communication
from council <br>
<b>Auto forwarded by a Rule</b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB">A reminder that we really need to keep this
moving. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB">I’d like to close it off this week if at all
possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"
lang="EN-GB">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org">owner-council@gnso.icann.org</a>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Petter Rindforth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 February 2013 10:39<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com">john@crediblecontext.com</a>;
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:volker@greimann.de">volker@greimann.de</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mason Cole; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>
List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [council] Current draft of Fadi's
requested communication from council<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><em><span
lang="EN-GB">"If Trademark law provided the level of
protection to automatically include non-exact matches in
the manner proposed in the strawman, lawmakers would have
implemented such a list. Yet none did. While the trademark
protection can be extended to additional near match
strings, it is the duty of the courts to decide this. And
just because a certain string has been used in an
infringing manner, that does not mean that there are not
also non-infringing manners in which the same string may
legitimately be used."</span></em><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">This
is in fact up to each Examiner of each national PTO. </span><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">That’s
why it may take up to 10 months (or more) to pass such
trademark examination processes. I do not think such time
would be accepted by domain name applicants.... </span><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Strawman
is dealing with an existing protection system in a more time
optimized way.</span><span
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><br>
/ Petter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">-- <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Petter Rindforth, LL M<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">On 14 feb 2013 00:36 "Volker Greimann" <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:vgreimann@key-Systems.net"><vgreimann@key-Systems.net></a>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">If that were so, there would be less of a
problem, but it is not so, in my opinion:<br>
<br>
-Does a trademark allow its owner to prevent the use of
the mark by third parties in other classes, or if the mark
is their name, etc, etc?<br>
I think not. There are reasons why trademarks are limited
to classes and regions and why legitimate use of the same
trademarked term cannot be prohibited. Yet LPR would do
just that. If any legitimate potential registrant missed
the sunrise period or decided to wait for a cheaper
registration period, LPR would block even legitimate
registrations. <br>
<br>
-Does a trademark require otherwise unrelated third
parties to implement and build and maintain a system at
their own costs that is solely used to inform others of a
potential legal conflict, confuse customers with
information potentially irrelevant to their planned use
and that generally interferes with the customary flow of
business by scaring away or confusing potential legitimate
customers and delaying orders or inquiries?<br>
I think not. Yet Claims II does just that to registrants,
registrars and registries. I am not aware of any other
industry that at their own cost had to create a warning
system to inform third parties of potential trademark
abuse.<br>
<br>
These are just the easiest examples of why the Strawman
and the attached LPR proposal will, in my opinion create
new protections.<br>
<br>
The claims process in itself is a new right for trademark
holders not previously granted by trademark law, so any
extension of the time period carefully considered and
agreed upon by the community expands the reach of this new
right for trademark holders. These proposals have been on
the table before in some form or other and have been
rejected by the community. Fadi Chehade’s has stated
himself in his letter to the U.S. Congress that the 60
days period should not be extended unilaterally by ICANN,
yet this is what is proposed now. <br>
<br>
The extension of claims to non-exact matches was
previously rejected by the Special Trademark Issues Review
Team, i.e. a GNSO created team.<br>
<br>
If Trademark law provided the level of protection to
automatically include non-exact matches in the manner
proposed in the strawman, lawmakers would have implemented
such a list. Yet none did. While the trademark protection
can be extended to additional near match strings, it is
the duty of the courts to decide this. And just because a
certain string has been used in an infringing manner, that
does not mean that there are not also non-infringing
manners in which the same string may legitimately be used.
<br>
<br>
These proposals create a new fence to protect trademark
holders from legitimate and illegitimate registrations of
their marks alike. <br>
<br>
Solely the 30 day notice period does not create any new
rights specific to trademark holders. The rest is a matter
for a PDP, not for a closed door, no outside communication
allowed session. ICANN should not deviate from the
multi-stakeholder principle. If any outcome of our policy
development and consensus building processes is subject to
unilateral revision once a small part of the community is
no longer sufficiently happy with the consensus results,
the multi-stakeholder model is dead.<br>
<br>
Volker<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">I will not argue with your metaphor -- I am
quite fond of apples. But I do quibble with you saying
the strawman is "an expansion of the rights of a
trademark holder in the domain world." Trademark rights
exist (not always consistently) in all earthly realms.
The strawman is not seeking to create new ones, merely
to create a method by which those that already exist can
be enforced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Berard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">--------- Original Message --------- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Subject: Re: [council] Current draft of
Fadi's requested communication from council<br>
From: Volker Greimann - Key-Systems GmbHz <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:vgreimann@key-Systems.net"><vgreimann@key-Systems.net></a><br>
Date: 2/12/13 4:25 pm<br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com">"john@crediblecontext.com"</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com"><john@crediblecontext.com></a><br>
Cc: "Mason Cole" <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mcole@5x5com.com"><mcole@5x5com.com></a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.orgList">"council@gnso.icann.org
List"</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org"><council@gnso.icann.org></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">I think Fadi has made it very clear
during the meeting in Amsterdam that he has now
understood the BC and IPC requests that led to the
strawman as a second bite of the apple, as he called
it. The proposed contents of the strawman would
certainly constitute an expansion of the rights of a
trademark holder in the domain world. I therefore
support sending the draft letter as is.<br>
<br>
Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><br>
On 13.02.2013, at 01:11, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:john@crediblecontext.com">john@crediblecontext.com</a>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Mason,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Did I not suggest the "expansion of
rights" language is a bit over the top?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Berard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">--------- Original Message
--------- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">Subject: [council] Current draft
of Fadi's requested communication from council<br>
From: Mason Cole <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mcole@5x5com.com">mcole@5x5com.com</a>><br>
Date: 2/12/13 3:00 pm<br>
To: "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>
List" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br>
<br>
Council colleagues --<br>
<br>
As you know, Fadi requested of the council its
input regarding the strawman proposal
resulting from the BC's and IPC's request for
additional RPMs in new gTLDs. On December 27,
I circulated an early draft of a council
reply.<br>
<br>
The communication is due very shortly, and has
been taken up by a small group within the
council to ensure that all points of view are
represented. Because this is an agenda item
for our meeting this week, at Maria Farrell's
helpful suggestion, I'm sending the current
draft to council so we can be prepared to
discuss it then. This draft does not reflect
additional input of the BC and IPC -- if this
is provided prior to the meeting, I'll be
happy to forward it to the council.<br>
<br>
Thanks --<br>
<br>
Mason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
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