Dear All, Please see below the action items and notes captured by staff from the RPM Sunrise Sub Team meeting held on 24 April 2019 (18:00-19:30 UTC). Staff will post them to the wiki space. Please note that these are high-level notes and are not meant as a substitute for the recording, chat room, or transcript. The recording, AC chat, transcript and attendance records are posted on the wiki at: https://community.icann.org/display/RARPMRIAGPWG/2019-04-24+Sub+Team+for+Sun.... Best Regards, Julie Julie Hedlund, Policy Director == NOTES & ACTION ITEMS Action Items: 1. Staff will ask Sub Team members whether there are any objections to moving next week’s call to 02 May at 18:00 UTC. 2. Staff will start up discussion threads based on the call and in coordination with the Sub Team Co-Chairs. 3. Staff will update the summary table based on the transcript/recording from the meeting. 4. Sub Team members will review the homework assignments in preparation for the next meeting. Brief Notes: Question 1 -- Proposal 9 Discussion: -- Do have a sense of how often spanning the dot is a problem? It could severely restrict registry operators with forms of domain names. -- Don’t have hard numbers -- could be somewhere between an anomaly and limited. To the market it does apply it would add value. -- It seems to be dependent on the TLD. -- You end up in a situation where you are having to include extra letters that aren’t part of the trademark and this allows Sunrise to dead with this. -- TLDs are not responsible for the actions of TLDs that are not related to them. -- Don’t think we have the task of creating new rights. The suggestion creates a conflict between the owners of a potential shortened version of the TM. Cannot extend the rights of TM owners beyond what they have in the real world. -- Not sure there is sufficient data on this. -- Could we consider the proposal in Phase Two relating to UDRP? There is an enforcement mechanism to deal with it. Could fall into the same bucket as UDRP cases. -- From the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Third Edition “WIPO Jurisprudential Overview 3.0”: 1.11.3 Where the applicable TLD and the second-level portion of the domain name in combination contain the relevant trademark, panels may consider the domain name in its entirety for purposes of assessing confusing similarity (e.g., for a hypothetical TLD “.mark” and a mark “TRADEMARK”, the domain name <trade.mark> would be confusingly similar for UDRP standing purposes). Question 5(a): -- If you extend Sunrise to 1 year many small and medium registries will go out of business. -- Registry operators need to be at the point of collecting cash so those doing end-date Sunrise could do the marketing/collecting registrations before allocating registrations. -- The question is flawed because it doesn’t recognize that their are two types of Sunrise -- start date and end date. -- Allow registries to decide which one works best for them. -- Could we have a rule that if ICANN releases more than X number of new gTLDs then there is an option to add 30 days to the notification? -- Number of TLDs launched is not really an issue of the Sunrise length. Question 6: Proposals #2 and #4: -- Sub Team members should prepare for the discussion next week. -- Focus on the data.