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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Thank you Rebecca and Paul K. for responding. Your comments have been very helpful to me to understand where your concerns are coming from. Much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Tushnet, Rebecca <rtushnet@law.harvard.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 15, 2019 4:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> McGrady, Paul D. <PMcGrady@taftlaw.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Julie Hedlund <julie.hedlund@icann.org>; gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GNSO-RPM-WG] Next Steps re: URS Individual Proposals and Upcoming Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am struggling to see why we should reopen the process for WG recommendations. If we did, I would think it would be a fair complaint that nothing is ever truly settled if some group doesn’t like the results. Why shouldn’t we also go through
all the other subgroup individual proposals to see if they too have gained support in the meantime since they were accepted as individual proposals but not as WG proposals?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The relevant scenario for possible adoption by the WG is, I think, after we get feedback. That’s why the other individual proposals are going out, right? The theory is that they might get enough support/evidence
in feedback. So too here. Or there’s no point to publishing individual proposals at all, is there?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law, Harvard Law School<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my phone. Apologies for terseness/typos. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Nov 15, 2019, at 4:33 PM, McGrady, Paul D. <<a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Thanks Rebecca. This is helpful. Is there any scenario that you can see in which the Individual Proposals could become WG Recommendations? If so, when would that be and what do you envision
the process would look like. Noting that you are in transit, please don’t feel the need to respond right away so that you can get to your archives. I completely understand that there is an important process issue here and I think it is best that we all get
on the same page so that we can focus any disagreements on substance rather than process. Safe travels!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Paul</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Tushnet, Rebecca <<a href="mailto:rtushnet@law.harvard.edu">rtushnet@law.harvard.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 15, 2019 4:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> McGrady, Paul D. <<a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>>;
<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GNSO-RPM-WG] Next Steps re: URS Individual Proposals and Upcoming Meetings</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When we started the survey process, it was for whether these were all going to be published as individual proposals, or not all published. I can’t search archives because I am in transit, but we were not discussing these as WG proposals
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<p class="MsoNormal">What was then discussed at Montreal was some sorting by level of support, as with other individual proposals for the non URS topics. I can live with that! But none of these made the cut as WG proposals. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And again: support for publishing something for comment is completely different from support for adopting it as a WG recommendation. We haven’t even “taken the temperature” on that latter, except insofar as we already did by not supporting
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my phone. Apologies for terseness/typos. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Nov 15, 2019, at 3:59 PM, McGrady, Paul D. <<a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hi Rebecca,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Help your fell WG members understand your concern. Weren’t the Individual Proposals always possible candidates for WG Recommendations? If not, what was their purpose? If so, we need a mechanism
to determine which ones have sufficient support to become WG Recommendations. The email below sets forth a path for those. If an individual proposal faces significant resistance or no one speaking in its favor, it won’t make the list of WG Recommendations.
It can still be published as an “Individual Proposal” and its proponent can submit a minority statement in favor of it when the final report goes ni. All of that said, I can tell from your reaction that you had a different view on how these would play out.
What was it you were expecting? Perhaps there is a way to handle these in a way that accomplishes the necessary dwindling of those with little/no support and also deals with any process concerns you may have. Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> GNSO-RPM-WG <<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tushnet, Rebecca<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 15, 2019 3:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GNSO-RPM-WG] Next Steps re: URS Individual Proposals and Upcoming Meetings</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Wait a second. How are these now potential WG recommendations? Further, as many people of varying substantive positions stated, survey responses did not in any way indicate support for the substance of a proposal,
only for its publication as an individual proposal. I object in the strongest possible terms to this framing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my phone. Apologies for terseness/typos. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Nov 15, 2019, at 2:26 PM, Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Working Group members,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">We write to follow up about next steps concerning the thirty-one (31) individual proposals that we as a Working Group received, and initially and very briefly reviewed late last year, on the Uniform
Rapid Suspension procedure (URS). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We thank everyone who took the time to fill out the survey that was conducted recently, and that had been intended to allow the Working Group co-chairs to “take the temperature” of the membership as to which
proposals ought to be included in the Phase One Initial Report for public comments and which might reach the level of a Working Group recommendation. Following the Working Group’s discussion of the survey outcomes at our last ICANN66 session in Montreal, the
co-chairs met with the incoming and outgoing GNSO Council liaisons to try to determine a path forward. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We have collectively developed the following proposal for handling the individual URS proposals and the URS Sub Teams’ recommendations, which we believe builds on the initial survey results and our discussions
to date. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">20 November 2019: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Working Group meeting to complete discussions regarding the recommendations of the URS Sub Teams’ to go into the Initial Report.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">4, 11 & 18 December 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (Note: no meeting on 27 November due to <b><i>travel associated with
</i></b>the US Thanksgiving holiday <b><i>the following day</i></b>):</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Working Group meetings to review the individual URS proposals to determine which of them fall into the following categories:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Include in the Initial Report as Working Group recommendations (see below for proposed methodology);</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Include in the Initial Report, not as Working Group recommendations, but as individual proposals for which the Working Group is seeking community input; or</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Do not include in the Initial Report, even as individual proposals, due to inadequate support.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Procedure to determine whether an individual proposal has sufficiently wide support to become a Working Group recommendation at this stage:</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level2 lfo3"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">All Working Group members are requested to review the survey results as well as the individual proposals prior to our December meetings (see
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_display_RARPMRIAGPWG_2019-2D11-2D03-2BICANN66-2BMontreal-2B-2D-2BReview-2Bof-2Ball-2BRights-2BProtection-2BMechanisms-2B-2528RPMs-2529-2Bin-2Ball-2BgTLDs-2BPDP-2BWG-3Fpreview-3D_115641871_120819086_URS-2520Individual-2520Proposal-2520Survey-2520Result.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=E-M4OQvQBo8UWqE1LwEiDR3PcWlfM0I-0jiI1c4ous0&m=12oZVXUG5sRSJxHEsvbG155rUldhbhLE3gtPzwAejIk&s=Jnsze0_2ReWg6Z4r1bAPSsOWd6lVDop8xficCkilYzk&e=">
https://community.icann.org/display/RARPMRIAGPWG/2019-11-03+ICANN66+Montreal+-+Review+of+all+Rights+Protection+Mechanisms+%28RPMs%29+in+all+gTLDs+PDP+WG?preview=/115641871/120819086/URS%20Individual%20Proposal%20Survey%20Result.pdf</a>). </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l6 level2 lfo4"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If a member believes that a specific proposal merits inclusion in the Initial Report as a Working Group recommendation, that member will have a short time to make substantive,
evidence-based arguments in favor of that position on a Working Group call – preferably provided to the full Working Group in writing in advance of the allotted call. </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Members wishing to propose that an individual URS
proposal becomes a Working Group recommendation must inform the Working Group leadership team and ICANN support staff by <u>Sunday, December 1</u>, to allow for advance notice and planning.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Procedure for handling individual proposals at each of the December meetings:</span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level2 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The proposals will be reviewed in the following order - begin with a proposal that received the highest level of support for inclusion in the Initial Report, followed by a
proposal that received the lowest level of support for inclusion, then a proposal that received the next-highest level of support for inclusion, followed by one that received the next-lowest level of support, and so forth, until all proposals have been reviewed.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level2 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For each proposal, where a Working Group member had indicated (by the December 1 deadline) that he/she wished to argue in favor of including the proposal as an actual Working
Group recommendation, that member will be given no more than 3 minutes to make his/her case, with questions and answers (limited to 2 minutes per question or answer and two inputs per member).</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l5 level2 lfo5"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Members are kindly requested not to rehash arguments/discussions and to keep their remarks, questions and answers very brief.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo6"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Subject to a determination by the Chairs, proposals with wide support and virtually no opposition will be considered as recommendations by the WG.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo6"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Proposals with wide support and limited opposition will be published for comment in the Initial Report as individual URS Proposals.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo6"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Proposals with virtually no support and significant opposition will not be published in the Initial Report.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo7"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Following the Working Group’s review of all individual URS proposals, and in accordance with role ascribed to Working Group chair(s) under the GNSO Working Group Guidelines,
the Working Group leadership team will determine whether there is sufficient support from other Working Group members: (i) to “convert” any individual proposal (where one was so argued) to an initial recommendation for purposes of the Initial Report; (ii)
to include specific individual proposals in the Initial Report as proposals only; and (iii) to exclude the remaining individual proposals from the Initial Report (although these will all be referenced in the report, with links provided to the actual text of
the proposals and the Working Group’s deliberations). </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We believe that this approach is an efficient way to proceed and will provide Working Group members with an opportunity to seek support for those (likely, few) individual proposals that they believe should
be included in the Initial Report as a Working Group recommendation. At the same time, this approach also takes into account the survey results by placing the onus on members to make the case for specific proposals and by allowing consideration of members’
general preferences (as expressed in the survey) in coming to a decision as to how to handle the individual proposals. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you. We look forward to closing out the URS review and to maintaining our timeline as best we can (and as reported to the GNSO Council) for production of the Initial report.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kathy, Brian & Phil (Working Group Co-Chairs)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Paul (GNSO Council liaison till 6 November 2019)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">John (GNSO Council liaison from 6 November 2019)
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