[Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt2] recording, Attendance, AC recording and AC Chat for New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Sub Team – Track 2 – Legal/Regulatory Issues 02 March 2017
Terri Agnew
terri.agnew at icann.org
Thu Mar 2 22:30:23 UTC 2017
Dear All,
Please find the attendance and recording of the call attached to this email.
The AC recording and AC Chat are listed below for the New gTLD Subsequent
Procedures Sub Team – Track 2 – Legal/Regulatory Issues held on Thursday, 02
March 2017 at 21:00 UTC.
Adobe Connect recording (audio and visual):
<https://participate.icann.org/p6ksb5h5weq/?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=d2bb332eb83bd37e
112e25e7751c52e54fb922234e519726f89516ceebbbd6db>
https://participate.icann.org/p6ksb5h5weq/
The recordings of the calls are posted on the GNSO Master Calendar page:
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Kind regards,
Terri
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Adobe Connect chat transcript for 02 March 2017
Terri Agnew:Welcome to the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Sub Team – Track
2 – Legal/Regulatory Issues call on Thursday, 02 March 2017 at 21:00 UTC for
60 minutes.
Terri Agnew:agenda wiki page:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_7
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Emily Barabas:a little quiet
Susan Payne:sounds fine
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):we can hear you.
Karen Day:sounds fine
Julie Hedlund:Your voice is quiet Michael
Emily Barabas:but audible
Julie Hedlund:Much better!
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):yes
Karen Day:wow!
Emily Barabas:yes
Jeff Neuman:Hereis the report:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system
_files_files_report-2Dcomments-2Dclosed-2Dgeneric-2D08jul13-2Den.pdf
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Jeff Neuman:(Public comments)
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):That's the link I sent around by email
before the call.
Jeff Neuman:you dont have to read it
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):You don't need to read it. Everyone
can find it on ICANN's website.
Emily Barabas:we see what you are doing
Emily Barabas:(scrolling, zooming, etc)
Steve Chan 2:We'll unsync now though...
Alexander Schubert:The AG should exclude generic keyword strings!
Alexander Schubert:.makeup - L'Oréal - totally unused
Susan Payne:Alexander, do you have voice capability - would be good for
you to expand on makeup
Karen Day:@Alexander should exclude generic strings or just closed generic
strings?
Alexander Schubert:Some corporate platers buy these strings up to close
them down....
Alexander Schubert:You will also see registries who will rather keep
ownership of all domains and "lease" them out; instead of having regular
registrations. Which kills all rights for domain registrants.
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):of course they do and that as a model for them is
Ok... but it does have a chilling effect on others and contributes nothing
to diversity trust competition or choice
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):that last comment was re buy and shut down name
use
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):yes Jeff that is a real risk IMO
Karen Day:@CLO - I disagree as regards stiffling competition, it may well
'chill' competition amongst the buy/sell side but it infact encourages
competition between business and those who can innovate in the domain space
by offering a tangible reward for devloping a viable innovative buisness
model.
Susan Payne:correct :Paul - Board chose not to make really a decision on
this which is why they tasked GNSO to form a policy for future. No-one in
round one could proceed as a closed generic but they were given option
eventually (after most had already agreed they would open up) to go on
indefinite holdd pending this PDP.
Karen Day:@Alexander the .makeup space isn't being used b/c L'Oreals model
was not operate an open registry. Perhaps it would be a very cool space if
they hadn't been forced to open??
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):Here's the Amazon letter I mentioned:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forum.icann.org_lists_c
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Paul McGrady:@Susan, except what the Board did was undo the decision that
they had made to allow it when the AGB was published.
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):possibly @Karen,
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):+1 Paul
Susan Payne:@Paul - Yes, I agree the AGB did not prohibit
Alexander Schubert:If it is not a generic keyword based string: operate it
like you want. But category killer keyword strings should not serve to cut
out your competition or have some fishy business models which deprive
registrants of certainty. A
Heather Forrest:Hi everyone - apologies for joining late!
Alexander Schubert:Closed Generics WILL be abused - big time. Yes: There
MIGHT be some benefitial cool new business models. I doubt it: There were
zero new business models in 2012. Likely this simply opens the floodgates to
abuse.
Karen Day 2:+1 Kristina - there is too much inconsistancy as is.
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):@Alexander: I think it's too early to
say that zero new business models came out of the 2012 round.
Paul McGrady:@Alexander - maybe the cool new business models were shutdown
when the Board shutdown new generics...
Alexander Schubert:Say 99% run the .com model :-)
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):that is a risk that parts of the ICANN community
will be most concerned about @Alexander... yes
Alexander Schubert:Then: If someone needs a closed gneric for a category
killer keyword string - let them propose their model - give the Internet
community opportunity to oppose it!
Kevin Kreuser (GoDaddy):Dish
Paul McGrady:An 8 year hold is a death sentence. Let's not pretend that
what the Board did was anything other than killing off closed generics...
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):@Jeff: You can figure it out by reading
the Spec. 13 application. That's public.
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):Well, you can see what they argued.
Not what ICANN's rationale was.
Paul McGrady:The difference between now and then is that the USG was part
of the GAC that advised to kill off closed generics. The USG was, at the
time, the final say in what got in and what did not. There would have been
no point in allowing closed generics to proceed if the USG was not going to
let them in the root in any event. However, the USG is no longer in that
role.
Karen Day 2:Guess we need to ask Apple too then @Jeff - it's a brand.
Michael Flemming:I think Jeff is aware of that. He just wants us discuss
about those brands that overlap with generic strings.
Alexander Schubert:ICANN provides registrants with certain rights! If
domains aren't anymore REGISTERED (via registrars) then all these rights are
gone. The domain is then "leased" - maybe according to some Offshore legal
entity that you can't even sue in the U.S.! Does the registrars
constituency know that they are about to be thrown under the bus? Maybe
someone should tell them....
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):I don't think it's necessarily your
role to have to come up with all the questions. We, as a group, do.
Paul McGrady:@Jeff, its a competition law issue.
Mary Wong:@Paul, what would be the specific legal question(s) to be
asked?
Susan Payne:OK - Question to get ball rolling: Is there a harm to allowing
closed generics and if so what is that harm
avri doria:what the harm is, or what the harrm is beleived to be.
Karen Day 2:That wasthe percieved harm, but maybe Susan is asking do we
have evidence of actual harm?
Mary Wong:Going back to basics - does the group have a common
understanding of what "closed generics" means as a term and category?
Alexander Schubert:ONE SImple example: In the current
registry-registrar-registrant model a domain is registered; and can be
renewed infinitely. The registrant invests money and builds a brand around
the domain. In the closed generics model a registry could simply retain the
right to "sell" the domain at any time - and cancel the lease! So if you
make books.com a big brand - the registry can kind of sell the besis of your
brand! Just an example how registrants rights might be violated!
Heather Forrest:In my mind this all feeds into a broader question, which
is: what do we do with those areas of the Guidebook that progressed/changed
after the GNSO PDP recommendations were agreed upon (ie, through GAC/Board
change)?
Paul McGrady:@Mary Wong, happy to help think through your question and get
a more robust/specific response, but what immediately comes to mind is: Does
the post-IANA transition ICANN (the corporation) have a legal basis to
restrict the nature of the business models adopted by gTLD registries other
than requiring registries to comply with applicable law?
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):Many of us have long flights coming up
in which we could read the public comment report. ;-)
Karen Day 2:@Mary, I think that is a debatable question as some will argue
that "generic" only applies to those specific tlds that the GAC called out.
avri doria:i have heard of no actual harm. Food is a good example. while
it is a brand, it looks like a close generic and if being run as a closed
generic, has there been any harm?
Mary Wong:@Karen, that's why staff is asking the question - if there is no
agreed understanding of what the term means, it's hard to see how
conclusions can be reached via consensus.
Mary Wong:@Paul, thanks
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):good plan Jeff
Karen Day 2:@Mary totally agree
avri doria:and are there other cases of branded generic words that are
being run closed?
Paul McGrady:@Jeff, I think we need to answer the basement question first.
Can the new ICANN actually do this (harm or not)?
Jeff Neuman:Paul - I dont think that we can get into the overarching
questions
Jeff Neuman:@paul - that question would apply to everything ICANN does
Paul McGrady:@Jeff, how so?
Jeff Neuman:I guess their answer would be that they can do anything that
anyone contractually agrees with
Jeff Neuman:Does ICANN have the right to require PICS?
Jeff Neuman:Does ICANN have the right to require a public whois?
Jeff Neuman:What I am saying is that it cant be for our group to research
whether icann has the right to regulate
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):Oh Jeff, I don't have the energy for an
existencial crisis right now. :-)
Jeff Neuman:@Kristina - exactly :)
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):hell no
Paul McGrady:@Jeff, its not the right to regulate that is the concern. It
is the right to exclude that is the problem being discussed.
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):the energy not the answer to the questions
Jeff Neuman:By signing the Applicant Terms and conditions, every applicant
gives ICANN the right to exclde for any reason
Jeff Neuman:(which I do not agree with)
Jeff Neuman:But that is what they would argue
Paul McGrady:@Jeff, if I don't want to sign the Applicant Terms &
Conditions, where else can I "buy" a TLD registry contract?
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):I think we have only a few minutes. Can
we agree on an action plan for our next meeting?
avri doria:For the moment can we accept there is as of yet no proof of
harm?
Alexander Schubert:This is how for example .de.com domains are sold in a
way that completely "feels" like a "normal regisration" - but if someone
buys "de.com" up - all registrantions are gone...
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.namecheap.com_domai
ns_registration_cctld_de-2Dcom.aspx
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Michael Flemming:Yes, Avri. So we will ask for it.
Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO):bye for now then... safe travels to those who
are attending CPH meeting
Kristina Rosette (Amazon Registry):bye. Safe travels.
Jeff Neuman:my computer is not letting me lower the hand :)
Alexander Schubert:TNX
Alexander Schubert:Bye
Robert Burlingame:Thank you.
Karen Day 2:bye all
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