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Hi Jeremy, <br>
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.<br>
<br>
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!<br>
Best,<br>
Kathy<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/24/2017 3:13 PM, Jeremy Malcolm
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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
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<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>
<br>
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