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<br><div><div>On Aug 7, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Craig Schwartz <<a href="mailto:craig@ftld.com">craig@ftld.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Agree with Ruben that being a registry (prospective, incumbent or future applicant) does not bring conflict.</div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Good luck finding someone in our very small space that couldn't be accused of some form of conflict.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br>Craig Schwartz<br>Managing Director<br>fTLD Registry Services, LLC<br>600 13th Street, NW<br>Suite 400<br>Washington, DC 20005<br>Office: +1 202 589 2532<br>Cell: +1 202 236 1154<br>Skype: craig-schwartz<br>Twitter: ftld_Registry<br><br>Please visit us at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ftld.com/">www.ftld.com</a><br><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br><br><br>On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:06:49 -0300, Rubens Kuhl<<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br">rubensk@nic.br</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote dir="ltr" _mce_style="border-left: 2px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px; padding-left:
5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><div id="html-message"><div><br></div>Ron,<div><br></div><div>I disagree. Being a registry (prospective, incumbent or future applicant) does not bring conflict. Following my suggestion of having 2 leadership positions (whether is chair/vice-chair, co-chairs etc.), I think it would be good to have one from each house (contracted parties and non-contracted parties).</div><div><br></div><div>The idea of having no horses in the race would make everybody conflicted, as even current end-user registrants could be seen as conflicted since some people argue that the more new gTLDs there are, the less his or her domain is worth; every stakeholder has an interest in the program, but having an interest is different from having a conflict of interest. </div><div><br></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>Em 07/08/2014, ŕ(s) 14:59:000, Ron Andruff<<a href="mailto:randruff@rnapartners.com" target="">randruff@rnapartners.com</a>> escreveu:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue" style="white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" _mce_style="page:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span _mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dear colleagues,<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span _mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span _mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">My thought on the election of leadership is more focused on process, i.e., the Chair, V Chairs, or whatever the group decides is best, should be unconflicted. That is to say, they should neither be applicants nor new registries. Within the long list of members, I am sure that we can select those that have no horses in the race, as they say. In this way both the work and the optics will demonstrate transparency and accountability in an appropriate manner.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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Arial, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">My two cents…<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ron Andruff<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></b></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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Arial, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">ONR Consulting, Inc.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></b></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span _mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span _mce_style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org" target="">gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org" target="">mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Jeffrey Eckhaus<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:08<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Michele Neylon - Blacknight<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org" target="">gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Agenda for First Meeting of the Discussion Group for New gTLD Subsequent Rounds<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></span></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I second the suggestion of holding off on selection/election until the group fills out<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight<<a href="mailto:michele@blacknight.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;">michele@blacknight.com</a>> wrote:<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><blockquote _mce_style="border-style: none none none solid;
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Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Everyone should have an SOI</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If they don't have one setting one up is not hard</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I'd also respectfully suggest that any election / choice of DG leaders be deferred</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I suspect that the group's make up will change between now and September as people come back from holidays etc and become aware of the group's existence</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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sans-serif;" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span _mce_style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;">gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;">gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Rubens Kuhl<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, August 06, 2014 12:13 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: purple;">gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Agenda for First Meeting of the Discussion Group for New gTLD Subsequent Rounds</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div></div></div><div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span _mce_style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">be of an introductory nature. The proposed agenda is:</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div><blockquote _mce_style="margin-top:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Suggestion: only reading SoI for people that do not have GNSO SOIs (or have updates to), to shorten up this part. <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt;
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font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span _mce_style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family:
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Calibri, sans-serif;" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Items for initial review - GNSO Resolution forming this group, GNSO Working Group Guidelines, GNSO Policy Development Process (to serve as a reference point for the DG)</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></li><li class="MsoNormal" _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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Calibri, sans-serif;" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Discussion of Work Plan – Review of Interim Chair's Draft Work Plan and discussion of alternatives and tools for completing work</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></li><li class="MsoNormal" _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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Calibri, sans-serif;" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Election of DG Leaders – The DG may elect to have co-chairs or vice-chairs. Once selected, the DG Chair(s) will need to be confirmed by the GNSO Council.</span><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></li></ul></div><div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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'Times New Roman', serif;" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">May I suggest that no attempt to see vice-chairs as representation of that constituency in the group ? It's so much simpler to have 2 (either chair/vice-chair, co-chair/co-chair, chair/alternate chair) leaders instead of a complex structure... since *-chairs only have coordination but no definition role, it's of no use to see too much into the roles. <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><div><div _mce_style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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