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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I agree with your proposal. &nbsp;Regarding the document you mentioned in your previous mail, by Jon Nevett, is very clear and
 quite convincing for me.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">There should be none, or at the most the minimum possible changes to the Applicant Guidebook, the applicants for new gTLD
 based their application on it and there shouldn&#8217;t be any major changes now.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Also, if anything changes it should be for all TLD, not just for the new ones nor just the gTLD.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">What had me thinking, in all this process, is that there is so much talk around Trade Mark regarding the new gTLD, and nothing
 with the existing ones, nor with the ccTLD, and the danger is the same in all of them.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Since several ccTLD are managed exactly as gTLD I think they should be treated equally.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">But perhaps I&#8217;m being a bit naďve.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">In conclusion, sorry for the rambling, I share your position.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">De:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">En nombre de </span></b>Mike O'Connor<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Enviado el:</span></b> Martes, 04 de Diciembre de 2012 11:33<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Para:</span></b> ispcp@icann.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Asunto:</span></b> Re: [ispcp] WG: Trademark Clearinghouse &quot;Strawman Solution&quot; - Public comment 30 November - 21 December 2012</span></font></p>
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12.0pt">i posted this to the group that participated in the LA meetings, clearly as an individual. &nbsp;but it's not a bad starting point for our discussion. &nbsp;i think the position
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12.0pt">-- the bottom-up policy process is important and we bypass it at our peril</span></font></p>
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12.0pt">-- thus, there should be minimal changes to the TMCH, the AGB and RPMs in this round and the GNSO should take up most of the proposals in due order.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">let's have a quick round of discussion of these bullets (plus the sentiment that i've written into this post below) amongst ourselves on this ISPCP list and then, based
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">here's my post. &nbsp;i've added some annotations of a post by Jon Nevett, and a &quot;policy vs implementation&quot; document that Margie Milam presented at day-1 of the LA meetings.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt">From: Mike O'Connor &lt;<a href="mailto:mike@haven2.com">mike@haven2.com</a>&gt;</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">i'd like to break my silence on some of these issues. &nbsp;first about a miscommunication that may be happening around the term &quot;straw man proposal&quot; and then dipping my
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 the generation of new and better proposals.&quot; &nbsp; that article goes on to describe the history of the term and its use as a decision-making tool. &nbsp;search wikipedia for &quot;straw man proposal&quot; and you'll get there.</span></font></p>
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 strong suit. &nbsp;but i helped where i could with the &quot;process&quot; bits and as a process type guy i thought Fadi did a great job of getting us all to step a bit outside our normal zone. &nbsp; so i think it *is* fair to say that the straw man came from the participants
 in the room. &nbsp;i typed the notes in the Adobe room -- i watched it evolve. &nbsp;it was definitely something that *we* did. &nbsp;and i think we all did good.</span></font></p>
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 i can be the master of understatement, it comes from growing up in the Midwest). &nbsp;i think we would do well by refining our description to the rest of the community of where the proposal stands with regard to agreement and actionability. &nbsp;which gets us to the
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</span></font></span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121129_new_gtlds_last_minute_end_arounds_and_fundamental_fairness/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121129_new_gtlds_last_minute_end_arounds_and_fundamental_fairness/</a></p>
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 and &quot;coming to agreement&quot; parts of these puzzlers we work on. &nbsp;so i'm biased toward that process because i think it's useful and effective, not because i oppose moving forward with any of these ideas. &nbsp;</span></font></p>
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 others find themselves in. &nbsp;the clock is ticking and there are hard deadlines to meet with issues still unresolved. &nbsp;Fadi needs to be able to provide requirements to people who are building things. &nbsp;i can remember buying a lot of antacid tablets when large
 late-breaking changes would come into requirements documents that i thought were already firm. &nbsp;that's the situation many people in that room found themselves in and that's where a lot of the pressure is coming from to either push requirements into &quot;implementation&quot;
 (to speed them up) or &quot;policy&quot; (to defer them).</span></font></p>
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 i can get something built, and moving most of the new stuff into the next phase. &nbsp;i think in this circumstance that translates into minimal changes to the AGB for this round and Margie's two flavors of GNSO policy-process (PDP or Policy Guidance WG) to look
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<a href="http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/change-">http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/change-</a> review-applicant-guidebook-19sep11-en.pdf</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">i am happy to report that none of the people who have participated in this process are ill-informed, stupid or evil. &nbsp;we disagree. &nbsp;and, although it's still clunky and
 needs some rough edges filed off, we have a pretty good policy process (PPPP) for sorting those disagreements out. &nbsp;for those who say that the PPPP is broken (voices on all sides have raised this point) i'd say it's not the perfect form of decision-making
 process it's just better than all the other ones.</span></font></p>
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12.0pt">On Dec 4, 2012, at 5:36 AM, &quot;tony holmes&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:tonyarholmes@btinternet.com">tonyarholmes@btinternet.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1F497D">Mikey &#8211; would you be willing to have a crack at this?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1F497D">Having attended the recent meetings you&#8217;re probably closest to the issues.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1F497D">Regards<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">&nbsp;</span></font></span><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><a href="mailto:owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org</span></font></a><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>[mailto:owner-<a href="mailto:ispcp@gnso.icann.org"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">ispcp@gnso.icann.org</span></font></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
 Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></b><a href="mailto:KnobenW@telekom.de"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">KnobenW@telekom.de</span></font></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>04 December 2012 11:01<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:ispcp@icann.org"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">ispcp@icann.org</span></font></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>[ispcp] WG: Trademark Clearinghouse &quot;Strawman Solution&quot; - Public comment 30 November - 21 December 2012<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Do we have somebody voluntarily taking the lead in drafting an ISPCP comment?</span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;
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 Auftrag von<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></b>Glen de Saint Géry<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Gesendet:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Montag, 3. Dezember 2012 19:33<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">An:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org"><font color="purple"><span style="color:purple">council@gnso.icann.org</span></font></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Betreff:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>[council] Trademark Clearinghouse &quot;Strawman Solution&quot; - Public comment 30 November - 21 December 2012</span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">The Trademark Clearinghouse facilitates the protection of trademark rights during the initial allocation and registration periods for domain names in new generic
 top level domains (new gTLDs). All new gTLD registries will be required to use Clearinghouse data to ensure that a set of mandatory trademark rights protection mechanisms are applied to all new domain registrations occurring in at least the first 90 days of
 domain registration.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">Following discussions at the Toronto meeting, ICANN met with a group of stakeholder representatives to complete implementation discussions on the Trademark Clearinghouse
 and its associated rights protection mechanisms. Among other subjects, these implementation meetings addressed the recent</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:
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 proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs</span></font></a></span></font><span class="apple-converted-space"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></span><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">[PDF,
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">Out of discussions evaluating the merits of these recommendations, the group produced at a strawman solution to address the concerns of affected stakeholders. This
 strawman solution is being posted for public comment.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">One element of the IPC/BC proposal that was not included in the strawman solution concerned a proposal for a &quot;Limited Preventative Registration&quot; mechanism, which
 attempts to address concerns related to solutions to the second level defensive registration issue that did not achieve consensus among the participants in the implementation meetings. Although this revised proposal is not included in the strawman solution,
 this proposal is also being posted for public comment to determine whether it should also be considered along with the strawman solution.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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  12.0pt;font-family:Arial">The Strawman Proposal is the result of collaboration among the participants of the post-Toronto TMCH implementation meetings. The Limited Preventative
 Registration Proposal is developed by and supported by the BC/IPC. In addition to the public comment period, ICANN is also seeking policy implementation guidance from the GNSO Council in relation to both of these proposals.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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  font-family:Arial">Out of the recent Clearinghouse implementation discussions, a strawman solution has been produced to balance and address the concerns of affected stakeholders.
 This strawman solution is being posted for public comment. This includes:<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">One element of the IPC/BC proposal that was not included in the strawman solution concerned a proposal for a &quot;Limited Preventative Registration&quot; mechanism. This
 revised mechanism is proposed by the IPC/BC to address concerns related to solutions for second level defensive registrations that did not achieve consensus among the participants in the implementation meeting. The Limited Preventative Registration proposal
 is also being posted for public comment to determine whether it should be considered along with the strawman solution.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">The Trademark Clearinghouse facilitates the protection of trademark rights during the initial allocation and registration periods for domain names in new generic
 top level domains (new gTLDs). All new gTLD registries will be required to use Clearinghouse data to ensure that a set of mandatory trademark rights protection mechanisms are applied to all new domain registrations occurring in at least the first 90 days of
 domain registration. These mechanisms are described in the</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb"><font color="purple"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:purple">Applicant Guidebook</span></font></a></span></font><span class="apple-converted-space"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></span><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">for
 new gTLD applicants.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
  font-family:Arial">Following discussions at the Toronto meeting, ICANN met with a group of stakeholder representatives to complete implementation discussions on the Trademark Clearinghouse
 and its associated rights protection mechanisms. Among other subjects, these implementation meetings addressed the recent<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/correspondence/metalitz-to-pritz-17oct12-en.pdf"><font color="purple"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:purple">IPC/BC
 proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs</span></font></a></span></font><span class="apple-converted-space"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">&nbsp;</span></font></span><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">[PDF,
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  font-family:Arial">Public Comment is being sought on the following documents:<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></p>
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