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    Hi,<br>
    <br>
    No problem with them not being mentioned, as long as they made it to
    the list.<br>
    <br>
    i confess I have not read yours yet eiither.  <br>
    Though Philip's were short enough to have read.  And agreed with,
    BTW.<br>
    <br>
    thanks<br>
    <br>
    avri<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04-May-15 10:53, Gomes, Chuck wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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            received them but haven’t had a chance to review them yet. 
            I wondered myself why your comments weren’t mentioned.  I
            saw yours before Philip’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Chuck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:windowtext">
                <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org">owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org</a>
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org">mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Avri Doria<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 04, 2015 10:39 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Jen Wolfe; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnso-review-dt@icann.org">gnso-review-dt@icann.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-review-dt] Comment on newest
                revision of the Westlake review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi,<br>
          <br>
          Did my comments not reach the list?<br>
          <br>
          avri<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">On 04-May-15 10:26, Jen Wolfe wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Hello
              everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Thank
              you to the Westlake team and staff for all of the hard
              work in assembling this information, particularly the
              detailed listing of all comments made throughout the
              process and responses by Westlake.  And,  thank you to
              Chuck and Philip for forwarding these comments in advance
              of the meeting – very helpful in preparing for the call!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">I
              look forward to talking with you all at the top of the
              hour.  We have a two-hour time slot scheduled today and a
              follow up meeting next week with an additional two hours
              to receive comments from Westlake and provide additional
              comments about the report before it is officially released
              to the public. 
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">We
              plan to provide Westlake an initial opportunity to provide
              an overview of the report today and then will go through
              the report section by section to provide everyone
              opportunities to comment.  We will continue to capture
              those comments, as in prior discussions, and Westlake will
              continue to document its response to those comments. 
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">I
              look forward to the discussion and appreciate all of your
              hard work and time!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">With
              kindest regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Jen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0E325F;text-transform:uppercase">jennifer
                  c. WOLFE, esq., apr, SSBB</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0E325F;text-transform:uppercase">Founder
                &amp; President, wolfe domain, a digital brand strategy
                advisory firm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><b><i><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#4BACC6;text-transform:uppercase">513.746.2800
                    x 1 or Cell 513.238.4348</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#4BACC6;text-transform:uppercase">IAM
                    300 - TOp 300 global ip strategists 2011-2014</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org">owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org</a>
                  [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org">mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@icann.org</a>]
                  <b>On Behalf Of </b>BRG<br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 04, 2015 4:57 AM<br>
                  <b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:gnso-review-dt@icann.org">gnso-review-dt@icann.org</a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> [gnso-review-dt] Comment on newest
                  revision of the Westlake review</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I
              would like to thank Westlake for the latest report and
              make the following 5 comments and recommendations.<br>
              <br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">1.
                  Page 14 preamble on structure</span></strong><b><br>
              </b>"</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">Many
              people commented on the GNSO’s structure and complexity
              and argued that these needed to change. We do not consider
              that the GNSO’s structure is perfect, or that it cannot be
              improved, but, having analysed the issues in some detail,
              our view is that the structure of the GNSO is not the main
              cause of its most pressing challenges.<br>
              In addition, the current structure of the GNSO has been in
              place for only about three years</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">."<br>
              This comment is misleading.<br>
              The 2 House structure was implemented in 2008. That is 7
              years ago.<br>
              Do Westlake mean the current form of the PDP and Working
              Groups?<br>
              This is different.<br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Please
                  change the text to clarify.</span></strong><b><br>
              </b><br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">2.
                  The "pressing challenges" and recommendations 36 - 41.</span></strong><b><br>
              </b>These all focus on diversity.<br>
              They are  fine recommendations but NOT ones that addresses
              the issue of structure.
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Please
                  change the text to clarify.</span></strong><br>
              <br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">3.ICANN
                  Board</span></strong><b><br>
              </b>In its resolution of 28 September 2013 the ICANN Board
              stated:<br>
            </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">"<strong><span
style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">GNSO
                  Structure is unlikely</span></strong> to accommodate
              the anticipated new stream of stakeholders resulting from
              the expansion of the TLD space. The GNSO Review will be an
              important vehicle for considering and addressing this
              issue. The unbalance that is already occurring needs to be
              addressed by the GNSO Review.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
              ”<br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Why
                  is this Board resolution not addressed in the report?</span></strong><b><br>
              </b><br>
              4. Page 14: "</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">Many
              people commented on the GNSO’s structure and complexity
              and argued that these needed to change</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">"<br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Why
                  is the opinion of "</span></strong></span><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">many
                people</span></strong><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">"
                not addressed in the report?</span></strong><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
              </span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
              5. Understanding the past and the present.<br>
              Little attempt to analyse the lack of relevance* today of
              the 2 Houses structure has been made.<br>
              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Why
                  is this?</span></strong><b><br>
              </b>*See below for a snip from the BRG survey submission</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
              Philip Sheppard<br>
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              <strong><span
                  style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">EDIT
                  FROM BRG PAPER AND SURVEY SUBMISSION</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              2008 GNSO reform created two Houses within the GNSO: the
              Contracted Party House and the Non-Contracted Party House.
              Put simply there is a suppliers House and a users House.
              And those Houses were given equal votes. This was a change
              from the GNSO of several separate Constituencies. This
              created a 4-tier structure.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              rationale for the 2008 reform was threefold.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">a)
              Separable interests.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">There
              was a belief that the underlying user groups and supplier
              groups had separable interests that could be divided into
              six separable entities (registries, registrars, business
              interests, intellectual property interests, internet
              service providers, non-commercial interests).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">b)
              Commonality.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              rationale for the two Houses was that suppliers are
              impacted economically by policy and may be impacted in the
              same way: and users are impacted in a variety of ways by
              policy and may be impacted in the same way. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">c)
              Balance between the Houses.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">There
              was a belief that the interests of users and suppliers
              should be balanced.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span
                style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">Issues</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">In
              2014, everything has changed. The rationale has changed.
              Indeed, the current structure creates new conflicts of
              interest.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">a)
              Separable interests.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">While
              different interests continue, it is no longer true that
              the separable interests are accurately reflected by the
              six separable entities (registries, registrars, business
              interests, intellectual property interests, internet
              service providers, non-commercial interests). There are
              two reasons for this.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">Conflicting
              relationships. There is a complex web of relationships
              that overlap and conflict within the six groups. A typical
              .brand registry may be simultaneously: a Registry, a
              Business Constituency member, an Intellectual Property
              Constituency member, and have a contractual relationship
              with other generic registries for back-end services.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">What
              is commercial? The old division within the users House
              between commercial and non-commercial is no longer
              relevant. Just within the 400 .brand registry applicants,
              some 15 are not-for-profit organisations representing some
              $69 billion in annual turnover. Two of these are current
              BRG members.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">b)
              Commonality.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              commonality assumption was historically questionable.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              commonality of interests within the old groups has
              changed.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">It
              was <u>never</u> true that users within each House acted
              as if they were impacted in the same way by policy. There
              has often been disagreement between commercial and
              non-commercial users, and between types of non-commercial
              user. This has been seen most clearly on issues connected
              with crime prevention (such as accurate Whois records and
              a difference of opinion on the balance of freedom of
              speech versus crime prevention).
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">It
              is <u>no longer</u> true that Registries are impacted
              economically by policy in the same way. The 400 .brand
              Registries will have a different view on many policy
              issues to the 800 generic Registries. This divide will be
              most clear where there is a choice between the costs
              imposed by a policy and the benefits of that policy such
              as crime prevention. In such a choice, generic registries
              and brand registries will typically have different
              opinions on cost versus benefit.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">c)
              Balance between the Houses.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">There
              is no objective reason for the current balance of votes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              belief that the interests of users and suppliers should be
              balanced was predicated not on an external objective
              reason but on an internal compromise. In the 1999 Names
              Council a number of groups self-formed. These groups
              became the Constituencies of the GNSO. These groups in
              2008 were charged to agree GNSO reform but they disagreed.
              The Houses concept was a compromise proposed to overcome
              this disagreement by severing the link between seats and
              votes. It was adopted out of expediency. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">d)
              Unnecessary complexity of Council /House /Stakeholder
              Group /Constituency</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">The
              Houses structure has made voting unnecessarily complex.
            </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in"><span
              style="font-family:Wingdings;color:blue">§</span><span
              style="font-size:7.0pt;color:blue">        
            </span><span
              style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:blue">Post
              2008, for some groups Council changed from a 2-tier to a
              4-tier structure. This has created unnecessary complexity
              and duplicated meeting agendas.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
               </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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