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

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi Jeremy,
Because Lori is on the road, I'll take the liberty of responding. You 
raise some important points and clearly something has been lost in 
translation. I'll be posting more about this shortly. But overall, the 
Subteam's job is not to replace charter questions but to consolidate and 
clarify them. To the extent this is not happening, we must revisit and 
revise them.

Also, the questions must reflect any concerns and interests that might 
exist among Registries, Registrars, Trademark owners and Registrants, to 
the extent that they exist. That was definitely an agreement of last week!
Best,
Kathy



On 5/24/2017 3:13 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 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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