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<DIV>Phil,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>thanks for your explanation of what happened with this process over the
last two years which I couldn’t follow the whole range. When I read Chris’
letter I thought I could agree with the board’s approach of refraining from a
decision rather than facilitating the discussion between the differing poles GAC
and GNSO. But this had to happen in a balanced way which obviously didn’t.</DIV>
<DIV>I do not hope this is just tactics to put the GNSO in time pressure but
there is an effect like this.</DIV>
<DIV>I agree that ways should be found for improvement. This is stuff for
discussion with the board in Hyderabad.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"><BR>Best
regards<BR><BR>Wolf-Ulrich<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=psc@vlaw-dc.com
href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">Phil Corwin</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 22, 2016 5:21 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mary.wong@icann.org
href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org">Mary Wong</A> ; <A
title=council@gnso.icann.org
href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [council] RE: FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Update from Chris
Disspain on the IGO protections issue</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Fellow
Councilors:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Here is my
personal take on all this.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">As outlined in
Chris’ letter:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol; COLOR: #1f497d"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
style='FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">For nearly
two years, since October 2014, a Board subgroup has been meeting behind closed
doors with selected GAC and IGO representatives (which have only an advisory
role regarding gTLD policy) to discuss differing GNSO and GAC recommendations
regarding certain protections for IGOs. During this entire period the same Board
subgroup has engaged in no similar discussions with GNSO representatives, even
though the GNSO is the policy-making body for gTLDs.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol; COLOR: #1f497d"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
style='FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">During this
extended period of closed door discussions with GAC and IGO advisors “the Board
has not yet been able to consider the substantive nature of the GNSO policy
recommendations that remain outstanding”. Perhaps engaging in parallel
discussions with GNSO representatives would have assisted such substantive
consideration. It is very troubling that a Board subgroup has engaged in
extended discussions with GAC and IGO representatives when, by its own
admission, it and the full Board have not yet given substantive consideration to
the GNSO’s policy recommendations on the same matters. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol; COLOR: #1f497d"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
style='FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">The Board
subgroup still has no response to the Council’s letter of May 31, 2016, which
was nearly a quarter of a year ago -- only a statement that “my sense is that we
will be in a position to refer the substantive proposals to you shortly for your
consideration”.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraph
style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol; COLOR: #1f497d"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">·<SPAN
style='FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">When the GNSO
finally receives those substantive proposals, “suggestions relating to dispute
resolution will most likely have to be referred to the ongoing IGO-INGO Curative
Rights PDP”.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Speaking now as
Co-Chair of that referenced IGO CRP WG, while GAC and IGO participation in that
WG has not constituted a full boycott, it has been minimal and sporadic despite
outreach efforts by both Co-Chairs and ICANN policy staff, and certainly far
less than GAC and IGO engagement with the Board subgroup. Our WG is currently
engaged in developing an outline for a draft final report and recommendations,
which we hope to issue for public comment just prior to the ICANN 57 meeting –
so the window for considering any substantive suggestions from the Board
subgroup is rapidly closing, and will likely be shut by the end of September (of
course, GAC and IGO comments on the draft report will be
considered).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Again, speaking
personally, I believe that the procedure followed by the Board in this matter
constitutes a good example of how differing positions between the GNSO and GAC
should <B>not</B> be handled. The Board’s procedure has not been even-handed, in
that it has engaged in a largely non-transparent process with governmental
policy advisors while having no equivalent engagement with those private
sector/civil society representatives charged with setting policy. Its
recommendations from those one-sided discussions have not been delivered in a
timely manner, which has frustrated Council members and may soon make any such
recommendations irrelevant to the drafting of the IGO CRP WG’s final report and
recommendations. And, overall, its actions may encourage GAC members and IGOs to
engage in closed policy discussions with the Board, and thereby undermine
initiatives taken by the GNSO to encourage early GAC engagement in the
policy-making process (noting further that even if the GAC does continue to
better engage in the policy-making process, what has transpired on this matter
may set a precedent for a “two bites at the apple” approach whereby any PDP
recommendations that are not to the GAC’s satisfaction can be contested through
extended closed door, one-sided discussions with the
Board).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Summing up, my
major concern is not that the Board’s process “has taken a longer time than any
of us had anticipated”, but that this is not “a procedurally sound way to
approach resolution of the issue” notwithstanding the Board’s belief that it is.
There must be a more efficient and even-handed way to both consider differing
GAC advice while recognizing the lead role of the GNSO in setting gTLD policy
than what has transpired in this instance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Thank you for
considering my personal views in this matter. I will consult further with the BC
Excomm prior to any discussion of this matter on our September 1<SUP>st</SUP>
call.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Best,
Philip<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Mary Wong<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 22, 2016 3:02 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
council@gnso.icann.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [council] FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Update
from Chris Disspain on the IGO protections
issue<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear
Councilors,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Please find attached a note
from ICANN Board member Chris Disspain that he has asked be forwarded to the
Council, as a follow up to the discussions that took place in Helsinki on the
issue of IGO acronym protections.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thanks and
cheers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Mary<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black">Mary
Wong<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black">Senior Policy
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