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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Ugh, that will be 3 a.m. in the morning for me as I will be in Singapore, but I'll try to make it ... :) Thanks everyone!</font><br><br><font face="Lucida Grande" STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><br>Mary W S Wong <BR>Professor of Law <BR>Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP <BR>Chair, Graduate IP Programs <BR>UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW <BR>Two White Street <BR>Concord, NH 03301 <BR>USA <BR>Email: mary.wong@law.unh.edu <BR>Phone: 1-603-513-5143 <BR>Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php ">http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php </a><BR>Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=437584">http://ssrn.com/author=437584</a> <BR><br><br></font>>>> </p>
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"gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org" <gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org> </p>
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"gnso-secs@icann.org" <gnso-secs@icann.org> </p>
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12/6/2012 7:20 PM </p>
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[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] MP3 recording SCI meeting - Thursday 6 December 2012 </p>
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<SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" ;COLOR:"rgb(0, 0, 0)" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri, sans-serif"'><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The next call for the </span></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" ;COLOR:"rgb(0, 0, 0)" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri"'><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri">Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting </span></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" ;COLOR:"rgb(0, 0, 0)" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri, sans-serif"'><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">is scheduled on </span></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri,sans-serif" ;FONT-SIZE:"15px"'><span style="font-size: 15px"><b>Thursday 20 December 2012 at 20</b></span></SPAN><b><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" ;COLOR:"rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri, sans-serif"'>:00 UTC</SPAN></b> </p>
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<SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" style="font-size: 15px" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri"'><span class="apple-style-span">Please find the MP3 </span>rerecording and transcript of the <span class="apple-style-span">Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting held on </span><b>Thursday 6 December 2012 at 20:00UTC.</b></SPAN> </p>
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<u><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" ;COLOR:"#0000ff" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri"'><span style="font-size: 15px" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#oct">http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#</a>dec</span></SPAN></u><span style="font-size: 15px" lang="EN-US"><SPAN STYLE='FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri" ;FONT-SIZE:"15px"'><br style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri"></SPAN></span><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"15px" ;COLOR:"red" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri"'><span style="color: red"><b><br style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold"></b></span></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri" ;FONT-SIZE:"15px"'><span style="font-size: 15px" lang="EN-US">(transcripts and recording are found on the calendar page)</span></SPAN> </p>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font>Julie Hedlund:Welcome Avri </p>
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  Julie Hedlund:Hi Anne </p>
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  Ron A:Just fell off the call, but was not suggesting you would loss ;o) </p>
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  avri:Ron, it is quite alreaight.  It is midnight here  and it sounded that way to me, but it amused me.  no worries.  you have to realie i have been doing ITU and diplomatic double talk to 2.5 weeks now. </p>
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  avri:... for 2.5 weeks now </p>
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  avri:Really good question </p>
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  Ron A:@ Avri - I feel your pain... </p>
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  Ron A:@ Anne: That is my issue </p>
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  avri:Yes, it could be easy to just add a line that says a suspeiton must be for a fixed length of time. </p>
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  avri:but who give notice.  and what is the vote thershold of that motion. </p>
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  Ron A:For those who have served on the Council, this may not be an issue, but from the outside looking in, it looks like an open loop. </p>
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  Ron A:Or better said: loophole </p>
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  Marika Konings:No new vote would be required - the motion would contain the 'timeinterval' for suspension as noted in the footnote at which point the PDP would resume </p>
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  Marika Konings:with the previous instance ('thick' Whois) the PDP was restarted (without a vote) before the actual end date of the original suspension </p>
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  Marika Konings:as there was Council agreement </p>
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  J. Scott:Yes, Wolf-Ulrich.  I was saying "simple majority" </p>
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  Ron A:IF the time suspension is included in the motion, THEN I am okay with this. </p>
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  J. Scott:What if we insert the term "stated" before the wording "time interval" </p>
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  avri:i need to drop off now. </p>
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  Marika Konings:I think that would be a useful clarification </p>
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  avri:will stay on adobe </p>
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  Ray Fassett:agree with J Scott.  Appears to me the issue is making clear that a time interval to resume is inherent with the suspension </p>
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  Marika Konings:Exactly - no other vote required if timeframe is included in the motion </p>
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  Marika Konings:it would automatically restart, unless the Council would take another vote </p>
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  Ray Fassett:I think the time interval should be case by case vs. hard scripting </p>
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  Marika Konings:<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf</a> </p>
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  Marika Konings:There is also a summary: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/summary-gnso-wg-guidelines-06apr11-en.pdf">http://gnso.icann.org/council/summary-gnso-wg-guidelines-06apr11-en.pdf</a> </p>
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  Ron A:Thank you, Marika. </p>
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