Dear Working Group members,

As requested on the call last Thursday, please find attached copies of: (1) the New York Convention for the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards; and (2) the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Note that their scope is very different - the Convention is the main international treaty that specifies the conditions and process of recognition by national courts of a foreign arbitration award, whereas the UNCITRAL Rules are a well-known set of procedural rules that can be chosen by parties in a commercial dispute to govern the arbitration between them. The UNCITRAL Rules do not, however, specify a particular venue or dispute resolution provider to manage the arbitration proceeding.

You can also find these texts as well as additional information and background, respectively, at: http://www.newyorkconvention.org/ and http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/arbitration/2010Arbitration_rules.html.

Finally, staff is currently working on a draft of a document outlining the pros/cons for Options 1 and 2 in relation to the Working Group’s preliminary recommendation #4. We hope to circulate this as soon as we can so that members can review and discuss this topic via this mailing list in lieu of a meeting this week (the next Working Group meeting is scheduled to take place next week – 25 May – instead).

Thanks and cheers

Mary

From: <gnso-igo-ingo-crp-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org>
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 07:52
To: "gnso-igo-ingo-crp@icann.org" <gnso-igo-ingo-crp@icann.org>
Subject: [Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] - Proposed Agenda for WG call on Thursday 11 May 2017 at 1600 UTC

Dear WG Members,

Apologies for the late delivery. The proposed agenda for the upcoming WG call this Thursday 11 May 2017 at 1600 UTC is as follows; please also note that this call has been scheduled for 90 minutes:

1. Welcome/SOIs

2. Review of updated table of facts, arguments, new sources (attached and distributed by Mary Wong on 9 May)

3. Discussion of arbitration as an option

4. Discussion about the possibility of a separate and narrow dispute resolution procedure for IGOs

5. AOB

Best,

Steve

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