[gnso-rpm-wg] Call for Volunteers: Sub Teams to refine questions for consideration relating to Sunrise, Trademark Claims and Private Protections

[Amr Elsadr]

Dear Working Group members,

As noted on the Working Group call that took place on Wednesday 29 March, three Sub Teams are being formed to refine (i.e. modify, edit, delete, clarify, or if necessary add to) the existing questions that were listed in our PDP Charter for Working Group consideration, and to present the proposed questions to the Working Group for review. Please reply to either Amr Elsadr or Mary Wong off-list if you wish to volunteer for one or more of the following three Sub Teams:

·         Sub Team for Sunrise Registrations
·         Sub Team for Trademark Claims
·         Sub Team for Additional Voluntary Protection Mechanisms (e.g. Protected Marks Lists and other protection mechanisms offered by New gTLD Registry Operators)

Staff notes that, with respect to the third Sub Team, several Working Group members had noted that the scope of our PDP does not extend to reviewing the effectiveness of these additional voluntary RPMs. Staff will be working with the Co-Chairs to develop mandates for each Sub Team that will hopefully ensure that their work is limited to that which is within the scope of what our Working Group was chartered by the GNSO Council to do.

For your reference, a list of the relevant questions that were included in our Charter for Sunrise and Claims, as well as some more general questions that were also included in our Charter, is attached. As with the initial Sub Team that refined the TMCH questions, the output from each Sub Team will be submitted to the full Working Group for its confirmation and review.

Thanks and cheers
Mary & Amr

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