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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As I understand it, Jeff does not see an opportunity for consensus without obtaining further public comment on the issue of Closed Generics. I believe that by definition, a Closed Generic is one where only the
applicant and its strictly defined affiliates may occupy the domains. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The WG has recently been to GNSO Council with a request for a new timeline, which was approved. That is where Jeff is getting his deadline. I tend to agree with Jeff that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(a) further discussion by the WG at this time will not achieve consensus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(b) additional public comment on the various proposals (and anything new that comes in during the next week) will better inform further attempts of the WG to achieve consensus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regarding the discussion on the public interest, I don’t think every gTLD is required to serve the public interest. There is a general assumption (which may be questioned of course) that competition is fostered
by the program generally and that this will inure to the benefit of consumers. The topic of Closed Generics serving a public interest is a separate one entirely, due to standing GAC Consensus Advice.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Personally, and certainly not speaking on behalf of the IPC, I don’t think a long discussion about why the Board should override GAC Advice is a good use of our time. Nor do I think the proposal from the small
group led by George is actually a proposal for a Closed Generic. It appears to me to be more of a proposal that is community and/or eligibility based.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">For the above reasons and subject to Monday’s discussion, I support Jeff’s proposed approach to the issue for purposes of the draft Final Report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Anne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>mail@christopherwilkinson.eu CW<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 26, 2020 12:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeff Neuman <jeff@jjnsolutions.com>; gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Current Thinking on Closed Generics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Dear Jeff:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Allow me just a quick response. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>1. The proposals that we have received merit a full discussion by the PDP. I think that time should be made available.<br>
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2. Your latest communication seems to me to ignore the current and prospective economic situation arising from the global pandemic. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em>> … we could get much further behind and ultimately not meet our end of year date.</em><br>
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On the contrary, there should now be no urgency. If the objective is to successfully launch another large opening of the DNS, then that should be done in the context of substantial international economic expansion. Which is apparently not currently on the cards.<br>
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I assume that Staff and Co-Chairs have investigated the relationships between the macro economic situation and the relative success of introducing large numbers of new TLDs.-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>3. Although I may have missed something, I do not know where the 'end of year date' comes from.<br>
Nor the current twice a week PDP schedule. Indeed, that has not brought matters forward, rather just made more time for discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Just a few thoughts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Best regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>CW<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">we could get much further behind and ultimately not meet our end of year date.de julio de 2020 a las 18:30 Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff@jjnsolutions.com">jeff@jjnsolutions.com</a>> escribió:
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<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal">I wanted to throw something out for consideration by the group in the interests of getting to the draft final report. We are already a week or two behind and I am worried that we could get much further behind and ultimately
not meet our end of year date. So, I am laying this out on the line as a proposal. This is not a definitive plan, but something to think about.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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For the Draft final report, we state that there is No Agreement on the issue of Closed Generics and keep the paragraph in the draft the way it is today.<u>
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In addition to the text that is already in there, we now have two proposals, one from George et al., and one from Kurt, et al. What if we give everyone an additional week to come up with any proposals on Closed generics they would like to float out for public
comment.<u> </u><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
We publish those proposals for public comment being very specific that they are individual proposals and do not have any level of support within the working group. We may even not want to attach names to the proposal so as to try not and bias the comments
we get in. We can of course discuss this last point.<u> </u><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
We solicit comments on all of the proposals.<u> </u><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
While the public comment period is going on, we continue to discuss the proposals as a Working Group to see if we can reach any sort of consensus on this issue.<u>
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We make it very clear in our report that absent reaching consensus within the Working Group on any of these proposals, taking into consideration public comments of course, that in the final report, we will go with the language that is in the Draft Final Report
(without any of the individual proposals); namely, No Agreement.<u> </u><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal"> <u> </u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal"><u>Why do this?</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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We need to be realistic with ourselves as well as the community that to date there is no agreement on how to move forward.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
We also need to give the community a chance to look at the various options people in the working group have proposed so that they can think about these as well (regardless of whether one group of people like it or not).<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
At the end of the day, we will need to demonstrate to the GNSO Council and the Board that we attempted every possible way to reach consensus on a compromise.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
And finally there are 40+ other topics that we have come to some sort of final resolution on and there is no reason to delay everything even more for these last few issues.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal"><u>What does this mean for us?</u><o:p></o:p></p>
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i)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>On the call on Monday, we will discuss this path of moving forward.<o:p></o:p></p>
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ii)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>This means that we do not need to use up time on the call discussing the two existing proposals for which I am sure we could spend hours going back and forth and likely end up on Monday exactly where
we are now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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iii)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>It also means that others have a week to submit their own proposals. I personally have some ideas that I may put into a proposal that I may submit (not as a co-chair, but personally speaking). This
may give us another reason to not attach names to the proposals so that if I submitted a proposal it wouldn’t be associated with the “co-chair”. <o:p></o:p></p>
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iv)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>We work on finalizing the draft report sections on Predictability and Mechanisms of Last Resort this week as well as the Preamble and “Cant Live With” Package 7.<o:p></o:p></p>
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v)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>This would enable us to stay only a week or to behind.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="ox-8df794a0ca-msonormal">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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