<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Jul 2020, at 17:15, Kathy Kleiman <<a href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com" class="">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Jeff,</p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">I'm sorry, but the language below is not accurate, and it
must be. There is no way this group can
agree to allow Closed Generics outside the public interest framework required
by the GAC in its Advice. Further, absent our agreement (and the GNSO’s
approval), we have not meet the requirements of the Board's resolution on
Closed Generics, and the bar does not simply "time out."</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>The group haven't agreed on anything, so... </div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal">I offer the language below as a substitution -- to accurately reflect the two “Closed Generic” policy requirements before this
WG and the GNSO -- the 2015 Board Resolution AND the GAC Advice. </p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class="">No Agreement</u>: The Working Group was unable to come to
agreement on a policy that meets the GAC Advice requirements for “exclusive
registry access for generic strings serving a public interest goal.” In keeping with the requirements of the 2015
Board resolution, as clarified in the Rationale, the GNSO must “inform the
Board on a regular basis with regards to the progress on the issue.” It has not
done so. </p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><i class="">“The
NGPC [ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee] is also requesting that the GNSO
specifically include the issue of exclusive registry access for generic strings
serving a public interest goal as part of the policy work it is planning to
initiate on subsequent rounds of the New gTLD Program, and inform the Board on
a regular basis with regards to the progress on the issue. The President and
CEO should provide the GNSO with information needed to support this request.” </i><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2015-06-21-en" class="">https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2015-06-21-en</a></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;" class=""></span><div class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Accordingly, in the absence of agreement by the Working
Group on any new policy consistent with the GAC advice on public interest
goals, the status quo is that Closed Generics would not be allowed in
subsequent rounds in line the Board’s resolution. The GNSO has not formulated
or approved a policy in accordance with the Board’s wishes, as stated in the
Rationale, and has not reported any progress to the Board, as requested in the
Rationale. Therefore, the Board’s resolution holds until such a policy is
formulated and formally approved by the GNSO. </div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>It's already known that we can't agree on what the status quo is, so retrying it one way or the other doesn't cut it. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>