<p dir="ltr">+1. I think this helpful intervention from ICANN board. Although I wish this came in earlier (before the release of ICG PC), nevertheless I hope it can still serve as source of response for most IPR related questions/comments that may come-up during the comment period.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This should make the work of the CWG on IPR easier going forward.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my Asus Zenfone2<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 Aug 2015 18:52, "Mueller, Milton L" <<a href="mailto:milton.mueller@pubpolicy.gatech.edu">milton.mueller@pubpolicy.gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Crocker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 15, 2015 12:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ianaplan@ietf.org" target="_blank">ianaplan@ietf.org</a>; <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:ianaxfer@nro.net" target="_blank">ianaxfer@nro.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CWG-Stewardship] ICANN Statement re IANA Intellectual Property (IPR)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The following is our formal statement on the IANA IPR. We will post this on our website ASAP.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steve Crocker<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the ICANN Board of Directors<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">ICANN Statement re IANA Intellectual Property (IPR)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">We support the ICG proposal and the underlying proposals from CWG, CRISP and IANAPLAN. The ICANN Board is focused on
how to implement the IPR component of the proposal. The ICANN Board believes that for stability and pragmatic operational reasons, the IANA Functions Operator must have operational control over the <a href="http://iana.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">IANA.ORG</span></a> domain.
During the transition, ICANN is prepared to transfer full ownership of the IANA-related trademarks to a neutral third party mutually agreed among the operational communities with the understanding that ICANN, as the current IANA Functions Operator, will be
granted license to those trademarks and ICANN will maintain operational control of the <a href="http://iana.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">IANA.ORG</span></a> domain for as long as ICANN remains the IANA Functions Operator. If the
transfer during the transition affects the timeline, we advise delay until after the transition. In that event ICANN is ready to hold the IPR as interim measure but commits to transfer it within 120 days after the neutral third party is identified by the
operational communities.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">We believe this is neutral and in the public interest. We look forward to hearing anyone in the community.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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