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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There were a couple of points for me to follow-up on from our call last week:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rule 3</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> – Panel Selection, s3(e), what is meant by “tribunal” in the final sentence. This section
was carried-over and adapted from the ICDR Rules, which use the terms “tribunal” and “arbitral tribunal” interchangeably. In our Supplementary Procedures, therefore, this should be a reference to the “IRP Panel”. I have noted to this effect in the Google
Doc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rule 4A</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> – Initiation, s5, if the concept of the Panel
shifting costs where it considers that <u>part</u> of a Claim or Defence is frivolous or abusive was something that the IOT had discussed and agreed, or whether this was introduced by the legal drafters. I have checked back to our drafts of heads of agreement
on Initiation, and confirm that this concept is one which the IOT discussed and agreed. See for example proposed final draft discussed during
<a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=231376860&preview=/231376860/231376861/IRP-IOT_Initiation%20Draft%20Agreement%20(Strawman%20v3)%20Feb%202023.docx">
meeting #103</a>, which includes at s7: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Where the
three-person IRP Panel, on making its final IRP determination, finds that part or all of a party’s claim or defence is frivolous or abusive, it has the discretion to shift and provide for the losing party to pay administrative costs and/or fees of the prevailing
party. This can include legal fees.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This also reflects the procedure in practice, where Panels have considered the different parts of the Claim/Defence when determining if any cost-shifting is appropriate. An
example is .WEB, where in fact the IRP Panel considered this very issue of whether the whole of the Claim/Defence must be frivolous/abusive before the cost-shifting can take place – and concluded that this is not the case. See the Panel’s consideration of
this issue beginning at <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-corrected-final-declaration-redacted-15jul21-en.pdf">
para 389</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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