I agree we won't be in a position to respond at the moment, and certainly not in the next week, but my thought was: (1) given that we'd had a WG looking at the issue which reached no consensus, the Council as managers could (should?) at least start a discussion as to whether or not to re-open the issue within the GNSO community; and (2) in view of its potential implications for the new gTLD program, if we do decide to start discussing it, it might be useful to do so ahead of the special Board meeting on Monday.
 
Cheers
Mary

 
Mary W S Wong
Professor of Law
Chair, Graduate IP Programs
Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
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From: Adrian Kinderis <adrian@ausregistry.com.au>
To: "Mary.Wong@law.unh.edu" <Mary.Wong@law.unh.edu>, GNSO Council List <council@gnso.icann.org>
Date: 6/17/2011 5:49 AM
Subject: RE: [council] NTIA letter to ICANN

I am not sure to what end?

Why would we discuss this?

Haven’t we already got a full agenda? Why is this particular letter so important. I am not convinced the GNSO Council is in a position to respond nor assist here...

Adrian Kinderis

 

From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Mary.Wong@law.unh.edu
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Subject: Re: [council] NTIA letter to ICANN

 

Despite the unfortunate timing (16 June) I think this is an important development and support discussing it on Saturday. We may need to have a follow up discussion, but it would be good to have at least an initial conversation as soon as possible.


Cheers

Mary

 

Mary W S Wong

Professor of Law

Chair, Graduate IP Programs

Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
Two White Street
Concord, NH 03301
USA
Email: mary.wong@law.unh.edu
Phone: 1-603-513-5143
Webpage: http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=437584

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From:

Stéphane Van Gelder<stephane.vangelder@indom.com>

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Date:

6/17/2011 5:40 AM

Subject:

[council] NTIA letter to ICANN

Councillors,

 

For those of you that haven't seen this, here is a link to the letter NTIA has sent to ICANN re the new gTLD program.

 

 

This is one of the topics that we could discuss during our Saturday morning session, if there is interest in doing so.

 

Stéphane