Apparently there is some discussion going on about what exactly the time commitment is supposed to be. Last I heard, it was a fairly firm commitment of 15 business days and possibly a couple of face-to-face meetings. If this is the case, I can't commit right now to give three weeks of work days to ICANN for this process, especially since there are not a great deal of details about what exactly it entails. I'm already at max for ICANN volunteer work. That's why I suggested at the NA RALO call that perhaps someone like Seth Reiss, who is an intellectual property attorney, would like to stand in for me. Am happy to contribute an essay or white paper on the consumer confusion issue to the group if it's germane, but my organization is not going to give me three weeks off to discuss intellectual property and new gTLDs. I apologize for committing before I truly realized what the demands would be. Beau Brendler ________________________________________ From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Cheryl Langdon-Orr [cheryl@hovtek.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:07 AM To: Evan Leibovitch Cc: staff@atlarge.icann.org; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org; at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Request for input from the ALAC into the IRT's work on trademark issues with the introduction of new gTLDs <CLO>Hi Evan see my reply points inter-spaced below... Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Firstly I have included in the body of this message a copy in full, of a formal request from the President of the GNSO's Intellectual Property Constituency, Mr. Steve Metalitz, requesting ALAC specific input into this process in a very short time frame (we will add this to the Agenda for our March 24th ALAC Meeting) and pointing out the opportunity for individual (here I encourage also ALSes and RALO's to also respond directly) submissions to be provided directly to *ip-issues@icann.org*<ip-issues@icann.org>.
Secondly two suitably qualified ALAC Members (in their individual capacity) have offered themselves to the IRT as Members these are Mr. Beau Brendler, and Ms. Vanda Scartezini, I would like at the ALAC Meeting to endorse these two IRT Members as formal representatives of the ALAC to this WG, and encourage discussion in the ALAC Working List regarding this matter prior to our discussion of this as an Agenda item at te March meeting as well...
I'm a little confused by this.
<CLO>Evan as far as I knew the deadline to propose members of the IRT was Friday, 13th March, and by the PDT time allocated I knew only of the names of Beau and Vanda being out forward... The IRT *is* looking fore Public Comment as outlined in the letter I got from Steve where he asked for specific ALAC input... If there is updated or different information circulating then I am not privy to that...
Beau brought up this issue at today's NARALO conference call and said that the IRT was looking for public participants. Is this need satisfied by the appointment of Beau and Vanda? Is your call only for members of an ALAC subcommittee or is the IRT looking for other participants?
<CLO> My call was specific to getting participation into an ALAC WG and that is deliberately set at a lower level of participation than what I understand the IRT per se is asking for... Hopefully we can get at least 2-3 people from each Region able to commit enough time to support Beau and Vanda as ALAC endorsed Reps to the IRT (I hope) as well as assist in formulating the basis for Regional and ALAC comments on the matter...
(I say this because I committed to help find more participants in the NARALO call; I'd just like clarity on the nature of the potential recruitment. Beau had mentioned that the committee was looking for a pretty heavy time committment amongst its members.
- Evan
<CLO> I hope you and each of the leaders in the RALO's can do the same either for the Ad-Hoc ALAC WG I am proposing OR on the IRT per se if my information is incorrect... I hope this helps perhaps Staff can confirm whether my assumptions on this have been correct or not...
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