[Gnso-rpm-sunrise] Summary of Progress on the Sunrise Registration Sub Team

[Mary Wong]

Hello Jeremy and all,

Just to clarify that the reworded questions are not staff edits to the original Charter questions but, rather, the result of the weekly Sub Team discussions on batching, intent and scope, and reflect edits and comments made by Sub Team members in previous versions of the current Google Docs table.

In view of the request to complete our work by 31 May, we hope that Sub Team members who do not agree with the current language are able to suggest alternative text for the questions for review by the Sub Team (per the Action Items from last week). If possible, please send these via email to this list ahead of the Friday call.

Thanks and cheers
Mary

From: <gnso-rpm-sunrise-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 21:13
To: "gnso-rpm-sunrise at icann.org" <gnso-rpm-sunrise at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Gnso-rpm-sunrise] Summary of Progress on the Sunrise Registration Sub Team

On 24/5/17 11:41 am, Amr Elsadr wrote:

On 5 May, staff were tasked with drawing up a third table taking into consideration the comments submitted and discussed by the Sub Team. The table was also to include the original Charter questions, and match them against the updated/refined versions in order to have the ability to demonstrate the changes made in a single table, keeping reporting the output of the Sub Team to the full Working Group in mind. Staff were also tasked with adding additional columns; one explaining the decisions made by the Sub Team resulting in the updates/refinements made, as well as a column in which available data and data required could be placed. The Sub Team also agreed to use color-codes to more clearly indicate which original Charter questions were batched and refined into which consolidated and refined/updated questions. This has resulted in the most recent version of the table/google doc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w1eAYmIBOZbhHRpN4mCVKgp97ycoadlxvE6Joa9dBE4/edit>.

This is the working version of the table that the Sub Team is currently considering, and there are a number of agreed upon action items for Sub Team members to go through listed on the 19 May Sub Team meeting wiki page<https://community.icann.org/x/DxHfAw> (last week’s Sub Team call). Please refer to these Sub Team action items at your earliest convenience.

Sorry for not making the last couple of calls due to travel, but I've taken a look at the reworded questions now and some of the staff edits have resulted in questions that are quite unrecognizable when compared to the original versions.

Maybe the new wording was extensively discussed in the calls that I missed (though the notes don't make it seem so), but I find a few of them particularly strange.  In particular "Does a registry operator’s pricing scheme (either “regular” sunrise pricing or use of “premium” pricing tiers) have a chilling effect on a brand owner’s access to Sunrise?"  This is a weird co-option of the concept of a "chilling effect" which is a U.S. legal term of art that refers to restraints on free expression.

Also, the "rewording" of "Should Sunrise Periods continue to be mandatory?" into the form "Are the Sunrise Periods as typically implemented having their intended effect?" which is absolutely not just a rewording, but a subversion of the meaning of the original question.

My fault for not participating in the last calls, but I think there needs to be a reversion to the original form of these questions, or a least a deeper discussion of the reworded versions.  Perhaps  the batching, at least in the first instance, could just involve putting all of the related questions, in their original wording, into a single table cell, but without rewording them.



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