Dear Councilors,
We trust that you enjoyed a merry and festive holiday break,
and extend a warm welcome back to you for the Council activities
for 2014!
As you will recall, the Council approved all the consensus
recommendations made by the IGO-INGO PDP Working Group at the
Council meeting in Buenos Aires on 20 November 2013. One of
these recommendations was for an Issue Report relating to
possible modifications to the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
(UDRP) and the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) process in order
to enable protected IGOs and INGOs to access and utilize these
curative rights protection mechanisms.
Staff has been engaged in preparing the Preliminary Issue
Report, as requested; however, due to the holiday break and the
need for internal coordination of several questions posed by the
issue under consideration, we find that we cannot complete the
full report within the 45 calendar day requirement specified in
the GNSO PDP Manual. As a result, I hereby write to request an
extension of the time period. My expectation is that staff will
be able to complete and publish the full Preliminary Issue
Report before the end of January 2014 for public comment,
following which a Final Issue Report will be prepared and
submitted to the GNSO Council for your review and action.
Please let me know if there are any objections to the
requested extension. Thank you.
Cheers
Mary
Mary Wong
Senior Policy
Director
Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)
Telephone: +1 603
574 4892
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