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On 24/5/17 11:41 am, Amr Elsadr wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w1eAYmIBOZbhHRpN4mCVKgp97ycoadlxvE6Joa9dBE4/edit">most
recent version of the table/google doc</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://community.icann.org/x/DxHfAw">19 May Sub
Team meeting wiki page</a> (last week’s Sub Team call).
<b>Please refer to these Sub Team action items at your
earliest convenience</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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