<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Trust me, I understand the frustration. Perhaps more than anyone.<div><br /></div><div>But we do not get to make up our own facts. The Board has acted, and the GAC has acted. We must operate within those constraints. </div><div><br /></div><div>Best, Kathy <br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "McGrady Paul D." <PMcGrady@taftlaw.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Rubens Kuhl" <rubensk@nic.br>, "Marc Trachtenberg via Gnso-newgtld-wg" <gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:18:37 +0000<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Latest Version of Compromise Closed Generic Text<br /><br /><br /><div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;">+1 Rubens. We can’t substitute the facts as they are with Kathy’s view of how they should be.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;">I too am disappointed that this WG did not reach agreement on an improvement to the status quo as the Board asked us to. Some of us tried by introducing thoughts on what a so-called closed generic in the public
interest would look like. But, those ideas didn’t stick. Our failure to come to an agreement doesn’t make the fact that we didn’t, somehow, “inaccurate.” What happened, happened, and editorializing about what that means is just another way of trying to
get an individual view of what the status quo is adopted by this group. We have been over and over and over this and I, very kindly and respectfully, resist this latest attempt.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rubens Kuhl<br /><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 10, 2020 3:39 PM<br /><b>To:</b> Marc Trachtenberg via Gnso-newgtld-wg <gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org><br /><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Latest Version of Compromise Closed Generic Text</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 10 Jul 2020, at 17:15, Kathy Kleiman <<a href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a>> wrote:</p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">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."</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The group haven't agreed on anything, so... </p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">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. </span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">No Agreement</span></u><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">: 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. </span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">“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.” </span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';"><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2015-06-21-en">https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-new-gtld-2015-06-21-en</a></span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';">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. </span></p><p></p><p></p>
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