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<p>Fellow Councilors:</p>
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<p>As you review the Strawman please note, per page 4, that this is not just about Geo names. The proposed Repoitory of Geographic Names (RGN) would allow any government to place an unlimited number of terms into the RGN if the term was protected by its national
law plus, in addition, if the government wanted to protect it for Cultural or Any Other Stated Reason.</p>
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<p>So this is a proposal to give governments virtually unlimited authority to veto almost any term, not just Geo names, from being registered at the Top Level.</p>
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<p>Best, Philip</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> council-bounces@gnso.icann.org <council-bounces@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 26, 2017 3:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> council@gnso.icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [council] FW: FW: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Update from the Co-Chairs on Geographic Names Sessions @ ICANN 59</font>
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Recirculating the message sent previously regarding geographic names. For your convenience, here is the direct link to the strawperson mentioned by Jeff:
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m69loOZthxrQdcCj1dIUJLkezQXr9rwGxXrechdFv1Y/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>
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How clashes between trademarks and Terms of Geographical Significance can be avoided Aims The aim of this paper is to propose a Strawperson solution to the issue of terms which may have a geographical context at the Top Level for future TLD releases (Subsequent
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Best,</p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"><council-bounces@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 12:27 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[council] FW: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Update from the Co-Chairs on Geographic Names Sessions @ ICANN 59</span></p>
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Dear Councilors,</p>
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Below, please find a message from the co-chairs of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG regarding the cross community session on geographic names at the top-level. Of note, there are materials that you may want to review prior to the sessions at ICANN59.</p>
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Best,</p>
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Steve</p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"><gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Jeff Neuman <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, June 16, 2017 at 7:08 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org" <gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Julia Golomb <jgolomb@cbuilding.org>" <jgolomb@cbuilding.org>, David Fairman <dfairman@cbuilding.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Gnso-newgtld-wg] Update from the Co-Chairs on Geographic Names Sessions @ ICANN 59</span></p>
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All,</p>
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Avri and I just wanted to provide an update to the Working Group on the Geographic Names Sessions on Tuesday and Thursday @ICANN 59.</p>
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ICANN has retained the services of David Fairman and Julia Golomb from Consensus Building Institute (CBI) to help facilitate the Geographic Names sessions @ ICANN 59 and possibly beyond. In preparation for those sessions, they will be reaching out to those
that submitted proposals for the April Webinar as well as several community members to get some background on all of the various positions around this subject. The purpose of their reaching out to these persons is strictly for their own education and to help
them understand the complexities of the subject matter. They believe, and we agree, that getting that background will provide for much more fruitful discussions.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">CBI (a non-profit collaboration and dispute resolution organization based in the US,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cbuilding.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" id="LPlnk398402" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:black; text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#386EFF">www.cbuilding.org</span></a><span style="color:black">) is assisting us in preparing and facilitating the Johannesburg ICANN59 cross community sessions. As a reminder, the goal of the sessions @ICANN59 is to clarify key geo
names at the top level policy issues, build a shared understanding of community interests and concerns, develop options that could gain broad community support, and start down a path to consensus on a comprehensive proposal that can be accepted by the ICANN
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In preparation for ICANN 59, we are asking that everyone <span style="color:black">
review the materials that we plan to present for discussion at the sessions:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">background document:
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Sheet1 2 Character, 3 Character, Country and Territory Names, City/ State/ Region Names, Other Strings with Possible Geographic Significance Webinar Presentation/ Proposal, On the ISO list, Not on the ISO list( ASCII), Non-ASCII, On the ISO list, Not on the
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How clashes between trademarks and Terms of Geographical Significance can be avoided Aims The aim of this paper is to propose a Strawperson solution to the issue of terms which may have a geographical context at the Top Level for future TLD releases (Subsequent
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Because of the limited amount of time for these sessions, we are not going to be having a panel rehash the same presentations that were
discussed during the webinar. We are therefore asking that everyone come prepared. We especially would like to call some attention to the last document referenced above (the Co-Chairs’ draft additional compromise strawperson). After spending some time reviewing
all of the proposals, Avri and I have tried to draft a Strawperson that includes a number of elements from most of the proposals we saw. We could not draw from every proposal since some of them were diametrically opposed to each other.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">That said, this is just a strawperson and
<u>not</u> a proposal. Avri and I are not advocates for this document, but we would be happy to answer any questions as to why the draft says what it says. The sole purpose of putting this strawperson together is to stimulate conversation beyond the discussions
that have taken place so far. We understand that there are some very strong held positions by many members of the community, but we hope that by putting this together, we can hopefully stimulate discussion on potential compromises.
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Please let us know if you have any questions and feel free to forward this note to your constituencies, stakeholder groups, advisory committees,
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Sincerely,</span></p>
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