[Gnso-rpm-tmch] Request for TMCH data reports

[Kathy Kleiman]

A belated and big thank you to Kurt for drafting the letter to the TMCH 
below. My only change would be to revise it to come from all 3 
Co-Chairs. Otherwise, it is perfect. Tx you, Kurt!

Kathy


On 9/21/2016 10:37 PM, Kurt Pritz wrote:
> Hi Kathy:
>
> During the last meeting of the RPM-TMCH sub-group we briefly discussed 
> writing a letter to the TMCH to request their regular reports to 
> ICANN. I mentioned that I could draft a request that you, as Chair, 
> could send to the TMCH. That draft is below. If you choose to write to 
> the Clearinghouse, you can edit the letter in any way you see fit. Any 
> comments from anyone on this list would also be gratefully accepted 
> and considered.
>
> Address the letter to:
> Vicky Folens <vfolens at deloitte.com <mailto:vfolens at deloitte.com>>
> Peter Van De Wielle <peter.van.de.wielle at chip.lu 
> <mailto:peter.van.de.wielle at chip.lu>>
>
> Here is the letter, let me know if you have any questions as to why I 
> assembled it in this way:
>
>
> Dear Vicky and Peter:
>
> I am writing to you as Co-Chair of the ICANN policy working group that 
> is reviewing the RPM mechanisms and, in particular, as Chair of 
> a sub-group that is seeking data to support the work of the RPM review.
>
> It will not come as a surprise that we recognize that the 
> Trademark Clearinghouse might have access to meaningful data that is 
> relatively easy to obtain so long as it has not been determined to be 
> confidential.
>
> ICANN staff members have been able to provide data that has been 
> published through presentations by you and others at ICANN meetings 
> and other venues. But that data covers only certain periods of 
> time that were addressed by those presentations.
>
> We are aware that the Clearinghouse provides regular data reports to 
> ICANN. We are writing to request that the TMCH make those 
> reports available to our working group (with confidential data 
> redacted if need be). The data can be made available in any way 
> convenient to you. We would rather see the reports rather than have 
> you refine or synthesize the data in any way.
>
> It might seem strange that we are requesting access to reports without 
> knowing the specific data in them or without providing you 
> with specific data sets that would help answer our charter questions 
> directly. Our thinking is that this data is rather easily obtained 
> since it has already be collected and synthesized by you and is likely 
> to be helpful in answering several of our questions. Therefore, we 
> thought to ask for this “low hanging fruit” before making a deeper 
> dive into specific data that might be harder to obtain. In the end, we 
> think access to the reports will reduce our data requests afterwards, 
> lessen the amount of work overall, and hasten the conclusion of our work.
>
> Please let me know how you view this request, any terms 
> or qualifications to the release of the reports if that can be done, 
> and any questions you might have. Of course, the entire ICANN 
> community wants us to get on with this work so please respond in some 
> way as quickly as possible.
>
> Thanks very much for considering this request. We look forward to 
> hearing from you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kathy Kleiman
>
>
> Kathy: I hope you find this helpful.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kurt
>
>
> ________________
> Kurt Pritz
> kurt at kjpritz.com <mailto:kurt at kjpritz.com>
> +1.310.400.4184
> Skype: kjpritz
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2016, at 6:22 PM, David Tait <david.tait at icann.org 
> <mailto:david.tait at icann.org>> wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>> Apologies for any confusion but just to confirm that we will be using 
>> the latest version of the document as shared by Kurt and herein 
>> attached, for today’s meeting. Many thanks to Kurt for preparing this 
>> document.
>> Kind regards (with thanks to Susan for pointing this out!),
>>
>> David
>> *From:*David Tait <david.tait at icann.org <mailto:david.tait at icann.org>>
>> *Date:*Friday, 16 September 2016 at 08:59
>> *To:*<gnso-rpm-tmch at icann.org <mailto:gnso-rpm-tmch at icann.org>>
>> *Cc:*Mary Wong <mary.wong at icann.org <mailto:mary.wong at icann.org>>
>> *Subject:*Agenda for upcoming RPMs sub team
>> Dear All
>> Staff would like to propose the following agenda for today’s RPM TMCH 
>> sub team at 15:00 UTC meeting.
>> (1)  Completion of Review of comments related to Charter;
>> (2) Completion of Review of List of Questions for TMCH Providers, 
>> Registrars and Registries to identify any gaps and additional 
>> questions; and
>> (2)   Update from Staff on data gathering.
>> The latest draft of Questions for TMCH Providers, Registrars and 
>> Registries is attached to this email.
>> Kind regards,
>> David
>> David A. Tait
>> Policy Specialist (Solicitor qualified in Scotland)
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>> Mobile: + 44-7864-793776
>> Email: david.tait at icann.org <mailto:david.tait at icann.org>
>> www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org>
>> <TMCH Sub Team list of questions - updated 15 
>> Sept(comments)[1].docx>_______________________________________________
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