[Gnso-rpm-data] Proposed agenda and updated tables for the RPM Data Sub Team call this Friday

[Tushnet, Rebecca]

My conception is a relatively standard "potential consumer" definition: people who haven't recently registered a new gTLD but would consider doing so, perhaps screened for whether they'd ever registered a domain name as well as whether they'd consider doing so for a new gTLD.  This is the kind of group that internet surveys can plausibly reach.


Rebecca Tushnet
Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law, Harvard Law School
703 593 6759
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Subject: Re: [Gnso-rpm-data] Proposed agenda and updated tables for the RPM Data Sub Team call this Friday

Hi Ariel:

Thanks for your help. Yes, please move the questions up to no. 4.

Hi everyone:

Here is how I don’t have a clue: I saw the no. 5 first column had the word “registrant” and thought that one was mine. Nonetheless, I think the same set of questions will work for no.4 as well, with some additions that I will make later.

My question is, what is a potential registrant? I don’t see how we gain any useful, reliable information here. Do we ask, “if you were to ever register a domain name and saw this statement, would you be scared off?”  It seems a little odd to me.

I know there is a good answer to this and I am embarrassed to be asking: what is the distinction between a registrant and potential registrant that can be measured in a survey or other type of data gathering?

Thanks everyone and sorry for the misstep.

Kurt.



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On Oct 23, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Ariel Liang <ariel.liang at icann.org<mailto:ariel.liang at icann.org>> wrote:

Dear Kurt and All,

Thank you, Kurt, for providing your input in Table 1.

To facilitate the development of the suggested draft questions, we have converted the Data Request Table document into a Google Document. Kurt’s input has been pasted into the Google Doc. Data Sub Team members and Staff have comment access: https://docs.google.com/a/icann.org/document/d/10qENwqvozS-TZfJiVOx5MG71YIsqeX95WkPqhA64ayE/edit?usp=sharing (using ‘comment access’ is to keep track of who made what comments/edits).

Please provide your suggested draft questions directly in your assigned sections in this Google Doc. You may also comment on others’ suggested draft questions.

Section 1 New gTLD Registry Operators (RO): Kristine Dorrain (with help from Susan Payne and Kurt Pritz)
Section 2 Registrars: Susan Payne
Section 3 Trademark & Brand Owners: Michael Graham
Section 4 Domain Name Registrants: Kurt Pritz
Section 5 Potential Registrants: Rebecca Tushnet
Section 6 Public Interest Groups and Trade Associations: Lori Schulman & Michael Graham

Kurt, we noticed that you provided suggested draft question in Section 5 of Table 1. If it is misplaced, please let me know and I will move them to Section 4. If they are meant for Section 5, could you please be so kind to continue with your assigned sections?

Kiran, while your name has not been assigned to any section, you have the option to volunteer to assist whoever may need it.

Last, the google doc is linked from a page<https://community.icann.org/x/oZhEB> within the Sub Team wiki workspace for reference.

Thank you everyone for your time and contribution!

Best Regards
Ariel

Ariel Xinyue Liang
Policy Analyst | Washington, DC
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)


From: <gnso-rpm-data-bounces at icann.org<mailto:gnso-rpm-data-bounces at icann.org>> on behalf of Kurt Pritz <kurt at kjpritz.com<mailto:kurt at kjpritz.com>>
Date: Monday, October 23, 2017 at 1:16 PM
To: Mary Wong <mary.wong at icann.org<mailto:mary.wong at icann.org>>
Cc: "gnso-rpm-data at icann.org<mailto:gnso-rpm-data at icann.org>" <gnso-rpm-data at icann.org<mailto:gnso-rpm-data at icann.org>>
Subject: Re: [Gnso-rpm-data] Proposed agenda and updated tables for the RPM Data Sub Team call this Friday

Hi Everyone:

Attached is my attempt at formulating the GNSO questions to registrants in a way to engender the responses and data we are seeking. (See question 6.) Is this what we had in mind?

I need some advice: The GNSO approved formulation calls for testing trademark claims in “different languages.” How many different languages do we think we will need to satisfy whoever it is that included that phrase in the questions?

Thoughts for constructing the survey, where we would want 1000+ respondents to be statistically meaningful:

1) I am against using existing stakeholder groups to take this survey out to their “members” as that will result in non-random samples and results that are otherwise skewed.

2) The most inexpensive way to conduct the survey is for registrars to reach out to their registrants. Registrars could offer discounts on domain renewals for taking the survey (and state the importance of participating). ICANN can fund the discounts and administrative costs. (I don’t know if registrars would do this but I am suggesting this.)

3) An outside survey firm could do this fairly cheaply. It might become expensive because so few people are registrants - they might have to contact 30 panelists or more to find one registrant.

Mary - I am sorry I did not put this directly into our wiki document. Would you mind doing that?

Comments welcome on the substance and the methodology & thanks,

Kurt


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