Hi folks,

I'm also concerned that today is Thursday, and we've not seen the text of any Motion (due by Monday July 9th) to actually vote on approval of the PDP Final Report (if we manage to have it delivered by Monday). What's the point of delivering the report on Monday, if there's no accompanying Motion to actually vote to approve its recommendations? If they punt their Council vote until August, then its crazy for us to have to put forth an unpolished report so far in advance of an August vote.

[And when I say "unpolished", I challenge the GNSO Council to look at all the issues I've found in my review:

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-igo-ingo-crp/2018-July/001345.html (Part 1)
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-igo-ingo-crp/2018-July/001349.html (Part 2)
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-igo-ingo-crp/2018-July/001350.html (Part 3)

and ask themselves whether the draft delivered this past Monday was "ready."]

As of right now, no such motions (nor any other motions or documents) have been submitted for the Monday July 9th documents and motions "deadline":

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/2018-July/date.html

That's another justification for having Council move their own meeting to July 26th (from July 19th). While Mary wrote that "in our experience, the Council has never changed a scheduled date for a Council meeting to accommodate the submission of a PDP report", they should change the scheduled date for additional reasons, including:

- only 3 week gap between a meeting on the 19th and the prior meeting (meaning not much 'new business' even exists to consider at a meeting on the 19th, as evidenced by the lack of any other documents/motions having been submitted so far)
- it was 'unprecedented (their words) to unilaterally impose the 'deadline' they did, but starve us of the resources/time to finish properly (had to essentially beg for today's call during the Section 3.7 appeal call we had, which is insufficient, and we should have had the draft report far in advance of this past Monday; we should have had a call last week, too)
- as of right now (8 hours before our call), I'm the only person who has actually submitted comments (extensive ones); given the short time since receiving the latest draft, combined with the July 4th holiday, it's very probable that few (if any) other members have had the opportunity to even read the latest draft report; obviously the report would benefit from having other people besides myself actually read it and review it thoroughly before it goes to Council and then the Board.
- need to provide sufficeint time for Minority Reports (while Mary is correct the Consensus Recommendations and Designations Levels were finalized on June 21, we've not seen the finalized text of the Final Report until this past Monday; i.e. the comments in the minority reports concern not just the Recommendations, but whatever else is in the (unfinished) Final Report.

Council should advise us *before* today's call (8 hours from now).

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
416-588-0269

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org> wrote:

Hello Petter and everyone,

 

Staff will look into the possibility of extending the call to 90 minutes (i.e. an extra 30 minutes from the scheduled time) and will let everyone know as soon as we can. Thank you.

 

Cheers

Mary

 

From: Petter Rindforth <petter.rindforth@fenixlegal.eu>
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Cc: George Kirikos <icann@leap.com>, "gnso-igo-ingo-crp@icann.org" <gnso-igo-ingo-crp@icann.org>
Subject: [Ext] Re: [Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] George Kirikos comments on July 2, 2018 draft final report, Part 3 (was Re: FOR REVIEW: Updated Draft Final Report)

 

 

I definitely look forward with pleasure to a fruitful and effective final call tomorrow!

 

As to the time: Mary, I hope it is possible to extend it to 90 minutes, if necessary?

 

Then, at the end of our call, if there is still some question marks, I can of course formally ask for an extension, but as it seems not so likely that such request will be accepted, I recommend us all to focus on finalizing everything tomorrow.

 

As to Minority Statement:

Mary, please note already now that I will prepare and submit one in support for Option 3 of Rec 5.

 

All the best,

Petter

 

 

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5 juli 2018 00:12:30 +02:00, skrev Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org>:

Dear George and Phil,

 

Thank you for your comments and questions.

 

Regarding the date of the GNSO Council call and the expected deadline for delivery of our Final Report - in our experience, the Council has never changed a scheduled date for a Council meeting to accommodate the submission of a PDP report. That said, if the Working Group as a whole (including Petter as chair and Susan as Council liaison) wish to request for an extension to the 9 July deadline, our recommendation is that it be a formal request from Petter on the group's behalf, sent through Susan.

 

Regarding minority statements - staff had suggested a possible deadline of 1200 UTC on Monday 9 July to try to have as much of the Final Report completed as possible. As the consensus recommendations as well as the consensus levels had been settled on at the 21 June meeting, we had hoped that the time between then and 9 July might be sufficient for those wishing to file minority statements (especially since these are not edited or reviewed). However, should any member wish to have more time for this purpose, may we suggest that those wishing to file minority statements at least notify the group by Monday 9 July so that staff can add a tentative placeholder to the relevant Annex, noting that a certain number of minority statements are likely to be filed?

 

Regarding Word v PDF - typically, staff works on documents in Word format which are then converted into PDF for submission and distribution. That is why we had requested that minority statements be sent in Word format, but I should think we can also work with PDF formats if that is how a member wishes to send in his/her minority statement.

 

We note that George's comments include notes on consistency, typos and similar errors (for which we are grateful) as well as more substantive suggestions. We suggest that the Thursday call focus on the substantive suggestions, and will do our best to provide a list to work through on the call.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

Mary & Steve

 

On 7/4/18, 16:09, "Gnso-igo-ingo-crp on behalf of George Kirikos" <gnso-igo-ingo-crp-bounces@icann.org on behalf of icann@leap.com> wrote:

 

Hi folks,

 

This is the part 3 of my comments on the July 2, 2018 draft final

report. The earlier parts are at:

 

 

This was all based on a single pass through the entire document. I

don't plan to do any further passes through it before tomorrow's call.

 

Tomorrow's call was scheduled for only 1 hour. I think we should

expand it to at least 90 minutes (our normal call length), or even 2

hours, to try to get as much agreement as possible on all points

(including concerns from others about the current draft). i.e. we can

work faster over the phone in real-time than we can via email (which

is asynchronous).

 

(all page references relative to "Clean" PDF version of July 2, 2018

draft, unless otherwise stated)

 

25. page 33, first paragraph: for INGOs, it would be Recommendation

#1(a) (note just #1), since we added a 1(b) for IGOs since the earlier

draft of this report).

 

26. page 34: Cost: I don't think it's correct to say that it's

"outside the remit of the Working Group Charter." Also, it's not

correct to call it a "preliminary" conclusion, as this is a final

consensus recommendation, and no longer "preliminary.".

 

27. (no page in particular) I don't this had been pointed out before

by anyone in this PDP, but the probability of a court action by a

registrant after an adverse URS decision is actually lower than that

for an adverse UDRP, because the URS has a built-in review/appeal

mechanism that can be utilized, before a registrant need escalate to

the courts. Might be worth putting into a footnote somewhere (where we

talk about probabilities being 'rare', etc.).

 

28. page 44: middle column (at bottom) says .."and no change to the

URS". Of course Recommendation 5 will have a slight change (set aside

the URS decision if immunity asserted), so that language should change

slightly.

 

29. page 48-49: the new text at the bottom of page 48 ("more fully

described in Section 2.1 above") should be deleted, as those options

at the time were *different* (e.g. Option #4 from Zak came in December

2017). The third paragraph even notes this. If we want to retain those

words, they can be moved to the first line of the last paragraph of

page 49, i.e. immediately after "During the Working Group's discussion

of these six options".

 

30. page 51: 2nd paragraph: (a) first, "to confirm that there was

consensus on the other recommendations listed above" is entirely

false, given that the text of those recommendations has evolved, and

was never "confirmed" either. I would rewrite as:

 

"…, and to ATTEMPT TO confirm that there was consensus on the other

first four recommendations." (removing the words "listed above").

 

(b) continuing, the May 25, 2018 meeting description is complete

fiction, because at that point no designations had been made! THe very

first time designations were made was on June 9, 2018:

 

 

Essentially, that entire paragraph is not accurate. What really

happened, is that the Summary Report (referenced on page 50) was not

well received. Remember, I wrote a long rant about "Everything Wrong

with the IGO PDP Summary Report"

 

 

Then, there was essentially a "Public Display of Possible Consensus",

where PDP members who were concerned about the accuracy and

inclusiveness (whether their input had even been captured) of the

Summary Report openly and transparently shared their views on the

mailing list, see:

 

 

Then, realizing that we were actually capable of reaching consensus

(unlike the Summary Report, which saw things more divided), the May

10th and May 25th meetings were focused on revising the text of the

recommendations. Then, on May 25, 2018, a two week process was started

whereby members were once again encouraged to share their views on the

public mailing list with regards to all 5 recommendations (including

the 6 options for the Recommendation #5).

 

Then, on June 9, 2018 set his initial designation levels after

reviewing all the emails, after which we engaged in an iterative

process of revising the text of the recommendations and revising the

designation levels to their final state (which was achieved on June

21, 2018).

 

You'll note I was careful to not call the May 25, 2018 a "Consensus

Call", since it never really was! (happy to refer to it as a "two week

process", as a compromise; if you want to call it a "Consensus Call",

be sure to add a footnote that that was one of the issues in dispute

in the 2nd Section 3.7 appeal made on June 10, 2018).

 

The third paragraph on page 51 is fine, but the 2nd needs to be

completely rewritten, to reflect the truth, and not the current

fiction.

 

Here's my attempt to write it, as diplomatically as possible:

 

---- start of new paragraph 2 on page 51 --------

Concerns were raised regarding the accuracy, transparency and

inclusiveness of the Summary Report. After discussions on the mailing

list, it became evident that more members of the PDP were willing to

engage further on the remaining issues than originally was recorded,

and that it might be feasible to reach consensus on all 5

recommendations. The Working Group held meetings on 10 & 25 May 2018

to further revise the language of the proposed recommendations. After

the 25 May 2018 meeting, a two week process was started whereby PDP

members were encouraged to share their views on the public mailing

list with regards to all 5 recommendations (including the 6 options

for Recommendation 5). On June 9, 2018, after reviewing the emails of

the prior 2 weeks, the remaining Working Group chair (can keep the

footnote referencing's Phil's resignation), set the initial

designations of consensus levels, consistent with the requirements of

Section 3.6 of Working Group Guidelines for a Consensus Call. The

Working Group held further meetings on 12 & 21 June 2018, and

discussions on the mailing list, engaging in the iterative process of

further revising the text of the recommendations and revising the

designation levels to their final state (which was achieved on June

21, 2018), while also agreeing on the appropriate designations levels

for the proposals that did not attain consensus.

---- end of new paragraph 2 on page 51 --------

 

That's about as diplomatic as I can make it, without bringing in the

2nd Section 3.7 appeal, arguing over what a "Consensus Call" is, etc.

 

31. page 56, 3rd paragraph "The Working Group scheduled community

sessions at each ICANN Public Meeting that took place after its

formation" --- not correct, as there were no calls during the Panama

meeting (and I don't think was a session at the prior meeting either).

Easiest fix is to remove the word "each" and make "Meeting" be plural

"Meetings", leaving it more correct than it is as present.

Alternatively, change "each" to "most" (and still make "Meetings"

plural)

 

32. page 58: Phil Corwin's affiliation is listed as "BC", whereas it

should be "RySG" since he's moved to Verisign. The Wiki page should

also be updated (his SOI has been updated, but the table listing the

members/affiliations hadn't been).

 

33. page 58: in the table listing all the constituencies, "CBUC"

should be changed to "BC" (to reflect the acronyms being used on pages

57-58). Or, alternatively, change "BC" to "CBUC" for all the relevant

members on pages 57-58.

 

34. page 62: might want to add a footnote/asterisk next to Phil's

name, given he resigned as co-chair, as was done earlier in the

document.

 

Sincerely,

 

George Kirikos

416-588-0269

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