June 2016 - Gnso-igo-ingo-crp

Working Group open meeting at ICANN56
by Mary Wong June 28, 2016

June 28, 2016

Dear all, In case you have not marked your calendars, the next Working Group meeting is scheduled to take place during ICANN56 next week in Helsinki. It will be held on Tuesday 28 June, from 13:30-15:00 Helsinki time: http://sched.co/7Gl4. As this WG meeting will take place during an ICANN Public Meeting, call-in and remote participation details will not be the same as for our regular WG calls. You should have received an email yesterday from Terri Agnew with information about the “one stop” wiki page that the GNSO Secretariat has created for all GNSO-related sessions at ICANN56, including our WG meeting. For your convenience, here is the link: https://community.icann.org/x/yCWOAw. For the full ICANN56 meeting schedule, please see https://meetings.icann.org/en/icann56-sched (this is also downloadable via mobile app). Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: mary.wong(a)icann.org Telephone: +1-603-5744889

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ICANN56: GNSO Sessions How to Get Organized and Remote Participation Details
by Terri Agnew June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

Dear all, Pre-ICANN meeting email inboxes are full at the best of times, so the GNSO SO/AC Support team has done away with the individual Remote Participation (RP) details and have created a one-stop wiki page for all your RP queries. In addition to this, ICANN meetings' team has put together a new ICANN meeting website which allows you to download all GNSO-related meetings to your inbox calendar in one go. 2 LINKS TO BOOKMARK NOW: ICANN56 Meeting Schedule<https://icann562016.sched.org/> GNSO Remote Participation w<https://community.icann.org/x/yCWOAw>iki page<https://community.icann.org/x/yCWOAw> Step 1 Go to the Meeting Schedule webpage, and if not done yet, create a log in when prompted. Every session on the schedule ca be selected and added to your calendar inbox. To get a general description of the session, please hover your mouse over the session title and a summary of the session will appear as well as a "add to my schedule" option. Step 2 Please download the ICANN56 Mobile App to automatically receive the latest updates to your schedule (available on Apple and Android products, look for "ICANN56") Step 3 All Adobe Connect rooms (which can be found on the session information on the Meeting Schedule and on the GNSO Remote Participation wikip age) will provide audio streaming. If you cannot join an Adobe Connect room for a session, and will need to dial in with your phone, please refer to the GNSO Remote Participation wiki page for the audio pass codes and dial in numbers. Please also follow the previous steps if you wish to take part in the session over the phone. Glen de St Gery and Terri Agnew will be onsite to assist you directly. For all GNSO meeting related queries (RP or others), please email us at: gnso-secs(a)icann.org<applewebdata://FB60497E-61D8-4FE9-BF9C-EB238191E416/gnso-secs@icann.org> and we will be more than happy to assist! Kind regards, GNSO SO/AC Support team

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Updated memo from Professor Swaine
by Mary Wong June 20, 2016

June 20, 2016

Dear WG members, Please find attached the updated legal memo from Professor Swaine. The basic structure remains the same; in particular, the detailed treatment of the differences between absolute, restrictive and functional immunity. In a number of area, Professor Swaine has attempted to clarify statements and explanations that may have been confusing in the earlier version. In particular, WG members may be interested in his concise summary of the topic on pages 2-3 of the memo; the addition of more information in the footnotes concerning case law and the US government’s position as to obligations under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention, and the more detailed discussion of the questions on waiver and possible changes to the Mutual Jurisdiction requirement at the end of the memo. Professor Swaine also notes in the memo the difference between a state’s sovereign immunity and an IGO’s immunity, and the potential problems an IGO may have enforcing foreign marks even under the current trademark-oriented UDRP. Staff will work with Petter and Phil on an agenda for the upcoming WG meeting at ICANN56 in Helsinki, which we will circulate as soon as practicable. As the Helsinki session is an open meeting, it is possible that we will be joined by interested community members outside this WG. Please note that the Helsinki session is currently scheduled for Tuesday 28 June, from 13:30-15:00 local time. We will send out remote participation details as soon as they are available so that members who will not be present in Helsinki can nevertheless join the meeting. Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: mary.wong(a)icann.org Telephone: +1-603-5744889

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Redline version (Re: Updated memo from Professor Swaine)
by Mary Wong June 20, 2016

June 20, 2016

Dear George and everyone – yes, of course; my apologies that I hadn’t done so! Please find the redlined, Word version attached; however, for purposes of publication, circulation and such please regard the clean PDF version as authoritative since this redline was generated by me and not the Professor. Thanks and cheers Mary On 6/20/16, 10:36, "George Kirikos" <icann(a)leap.com> wrote: Thanks, Mary. If it's possible to generate a redline version, to quickly and efficiently compare with the earlier draft, that'd be useful. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/ On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Mary Wong <mary.wong(a)icann.org> wrote: > Dear WG members, > > > > Please find attached the updated legal memo from Professor Swaine. The basic > structure remains the same; in particular, the detailed treatment of the > differences between absolute, restrictive and functional immunity. In a > number of area, Professor Swaine has attempted to clarify statements and > explanations that may have been confusing in the earlier version. In > particular, WG members may be interested in his concise summary of the topic > on pages 2-3 of the memo; the addition of more information in the footnotes > concerning case law and the US government’s position as to obligations under > Article 6ter of the Paris Convention, and the more detailed discussion of > the questions on waiver and possible changes to the Mutual Jurisdiction > requirement at the end of the memo. Professor Swaine also notes in the memo > the difference between a state’s sovereign immunity and an IGO’s immunity, > and the potential problems an IGO may have enforcing foreign marks even > under the current trademark-oriented UDRP. > > > > Staff will work with Petter and Phil on an agenda for the upcoming WG > meeting at ICANN56 in Helsinki, which we will circulate as soon as > practicable. As the Helsinki session is an open meeting, it is possible that > we will be joined by interested community members outside this WG. Please > note that the Helsinki session is currently scheduled for Tuesday 28 June, > from 13:30-15:00 local time. We will send out remote participation details > as soon as they are available so that members who will not be present in > Helsinki can nevertheless join the meeting. > > > > Thanks and cheers > > Mary > > > > > > Mary Wong > > Senior Policy Director > > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) > > Email: mary.wong(a)icann.org > > Telephone: +1-603-5744889 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnso-igo-ingo-crp mailing list > Gnso-igo-ingo-crp(a)icann.org > https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-igo-ingo-crp

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Swaine report update, future calls, Helskinki, etc.?
by George Kirikos June 16, 2016

June 16, 2016

Hi folks, It's been a while since our last call. 1. Do we have a timetable for the final report from Professor Swaine? 2. Will there be a call before the Helsinki ICANN meeting, and/or a call during that meeting? Or, are we aiming for after Helsinki at this point? 3. Did we receive any feedback from the IGOs or others on the draft Swaine report? Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/

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