<div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Dear IGO-INGO Curative Rights Policy
Development Process Working Group members,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">I write as the GNSO Council Liaison to
this Working Group, to circulate a recommendation from Dr. Heather Forrest,
GNSO Chair, which I endorse and support. She and I both hope that the proposed
approach can be a useful path forward in assisting the group to ascertain and
develop consensus (if any) on the six options under consideration relating to
the handling of IGO jurisdictional immunity issues where a registrant who has
lost a UDRP or URS proceeding against an IGO proceeds to file a court claim
against that IGO.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">You will find details of the
recommended approach in the attached Straw Man Paper (prepared by ICANN staff
at Heather’s request) and accompanying Annex. I will be very grateful if
everyone can take a moment to provide feedback as to whether you support the
suggested approach or not, since this will allow us all to see if the approach
may be workable.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">As the Working Group has a session
coming up next week at ICANN61 (on Wednesday 14 March from 1700-1830 Puerto
Rico time), the recommended approach also includes a suggestion for how to
organize that session. In brief, the recommendation is:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Instead of a regular Working Group meeting or open community
session, as has been the Working Group’s practice in recent ICANN meetings, the
ICANN61 session will be run as a form of “open office hours”, where any and all
Working Group members are invited to discuss their views and questions on the
topic of IGO jurisdictional immunity with me, including (and especially) the
six options.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">ICANN policy staff will be on hand, to provide background
information and process advice, and to assist me with taking accurate notes of
the session.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">The session will not be recorded, to encourage frank sharing of
views (note: this is the model that was adopted for a different group
relatively recently to try to break an impasse in that group).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Since not everyone will be able to attend the ICANN61 open office
hours and, more importantly, because some Working Group members may prefer to
provide their views in private, I will (with ICANN staff assistance) hold
additional 1:1 or small group conversations (as you may prefer) after ICANN61 –
this will most likely be done through Adobe Connect and/or a conference phone
bridge.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Following these office hour sessions, I will (with ICANN staff
assistance) prepare a report for the Working Group on the discussions that took
place. That report should form the basis for an initial designation of
consensus levels for each of the six options by Phil and Petter.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">While a non-anonymous poll may be useful at some later stage in
this iterative process of finding consensus (consistent with the requirements
in the GNSO Working Group Guidelines), it is not necessary at this present
time.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Thank you – and on behalf of Heather,
thank you also for taking the time to provide me with any and all feedback you
may have in light of the procedural path forward noted in this message.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Susan Kawaguchi </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">Councilor for the Business Constituency</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></p>
</div>