BC members here in Costa Rica are meeting at 12:30 today (Wed) in Heliconia room at the Ramada. That's the same room as the Consumer Trust<http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29645> workshop John Berard and I will be leading from 11 – 12:30. We will discuss BC comments to be made in the public forum and Defensive Application/Registration panel on Thursday. Public forum topics are here<http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29713> and listed below. ICANN Acting in the Public Interest Document Availability and Scheduling of ICANN Meetings Conflicts of Interest Implementation issues for new gLD rollout Contract Compliance Below is the note sent by ICANN Staff regarding Thursday's panel on defensive registrations. From: Carole Cornell <carole.cornell@icann.org<mailto:carole.cornell@icann.org>> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:06:35 -0700 To: "stacey.king@richemont-ip.com<mailto:stacey.king@richemont-ip.com>" <stacey.king@richemont-ip.com<mailto:stacey.king@richemont-ip.com>>, "kev@kevinmurphy.info<mailto:kev@kevinmurphy.info>" <kev@kevinmurphy.info<mailto:kev@kevinmurphy.info>>, "nick.wood@comlaude.com<mailto:nick.wood@comlaude.com>" <nick.wood@comlaude.com<mailto:nick.wood@comlaude.com>>, "k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk<mailto:k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk>" <k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk<mailto:k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk>>, "alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca<mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>" <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca<mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>>, Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org<mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org>>, Jeff Brueggeman <jb7454@att.com<mailto:jb7454@att.com>> Cc: Kurt Pritz <kurt.pritz@icann.org<mailto:kurt.pritz@icann.org>>, Karen Lentz <karen.lentz@icann.org<mailto:karen.lentz@icann.org>> Subject: Top level list of Defensive Registration proposals As a follow up to the breakfast meeting this morning regarding the Defensive Registrations of new gtlds session. A few highlights. 1) This session is set for Thursday 3/15 from 1300-1400 in the La Paz A room. 2) Kevin Murphy has agreed to be the facilitator of the session. 3) Attached please find the list of proposed proposals that each panelist will be asked to give their reaction to. As stated this morning this is a very brief summary of the public comment received. Here is the link http://forum.icann.org/lists/newgtlds-defensive-applications/ to all of the public comments received if you wish to read them all. The public comment forum was open from February 6 - February 29th. 4) We will post on the session meeting site a brief summary of the comments received shortly. Those who were not able to make the session, I would be happy to meet and to go over what was discussed. Again, thank for agreeing to be a panelist. Regards, Carole Carole Cornell ICANN Senior Director, Project Office carole.cornell@icann.org<mailto:carole.cornell@icann.org> +1.310.301.5803 office +1.310.514.7900 cell