June 2019 - GNSO-RPM-WG - lists.icann.org

RPM PDP WG Trademark Claims Sub Team Status Report 10 June 2019
by Julie Hedlund June 10, 2019

June 10, 2019

Dear members of the RPM PDP WG, On behalf of Martin Silva and Roger Carney, Co-Chairs of the TM Claims Sub Team, please see below the weekly progress report to the full RPM PDP WG. Martin acted as chair during the meeting<https://community.icann.org/display/RARPMRIAGPWG/2019-06-05+Sub+team+for+Tr…> on Wednesday, 05 June. Overview: * By ICANN65, the Sub Team aims to complete discussing a total of five (5) Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions and reviewing a total of five (5) Individual Proposals. * To date, the Sub Team has discussed all Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions and Individual Proposals. Discussions took place during meetings and via discussion threads on the mailing list. * In preparation for the report to the full WG, the Sub Team is reviewing the draft language for proposed answers, preliminary recommendations, and proposed questions for community input, if any. * Based on current progress, the Sub Team is projected to complete its work by the end of ICANN65, with a goal to finish earlier. The Sub Team’s task is to develop proposed answers and preliminary recommendations with regard to the Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions, as well as review individual proposals and determine the level of support for inclusion in the Initial Report. * The Sub Team used discussion threads to facilitate their work in between meetings. To date, all discussion threads have been closed. 05 June Meeting: the Sub Team began discussion of the proposed answers and preliminary recommendations for Q4. 12 June Meeting: the Sub Team aims to complete discussion of the proposed answers and preliminary recommendations for Q4, and if time permits, discuss the revised text for Q1 and Q3. Documents Wiki: Find discussion threads, summary tables, and other working documents of the TM Claims Sub Team on https://community.icann.org/x/9YIWBg.

1 0

Message regarding specific recommendations from the CCT Review Team
by Mary Wong June 10, 2019

June 10, 2019

Dear RPM Working Group members, Please see below for a message from Larisa Gurnick, Vice-President of ICANN org’s Multi-stakeholder Strategy & Strategic Initiatives (MSSI) department. It concerns several recommendations pertaining to RPMs which the ICANN Board has passed through to our Working Group, as it also did with several other recommendations directed toward other GNSO working groups, the GNSO Council and a number of other stakeholder groups. Kathy, Brian, Phil and everyone – please let Julie, Ariel and me know if you’d like to discuss or have questions for Larisa. Thank you! Dear Members of the RPM WG, The purpose of this note is to highlight the Board resolution passed on 1 March 2019 - see https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-03-01-en - that calls for a set of Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) Final Recommendations to be passed through to community groups. As articulated in the Board resolution, “recognizing that the Board has the obligation and responsibility to balance the work of ICANN in order to preserve the ability for ICANN org to serve its Mission and the public interest, the Board decided on three categories of action”: * Accepting recommendations, subject to costing and implementation considerations; * Placing recommendations (in whole or in part) in "Pending" status, directing ICANN org to perform specific actions to enable the Board to take further actions; * Passing recommendations (in whole or in part) to community groups the CCT-RT identified for their consideration. The Board noted fourteen such recommendations (9, 10, 12, 16, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35). We invite you to refer to pages 1-4 of the scorecard https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-cct-recs-scor… which compile pass-through recommendations, including the groups they are addressed to. Accordingly, ICANN org wishes to notify you of the recommendation the ICANN Board resolved to pass through to you, in whole or in part, for your consideration: * Recommendation 9. Note: this recommendation was also passed through to the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG, as suggested by the CCT-RT. We would like to highlight the following language of the Board resolution: “in passing these recommendations through, the Board is neither accepting, nor rejecting the recommendations. […] Passing recommendations through to community groups is not a directive that the groups identified should formally address any of the issues within those recommendations. It is within the purview of each group to identify whether work will be taken on and the topics that the group will address.” As indicated in the resolution, the Board encourages community groups to be “mindful of any interdependencies with ongoing work and discussions”. Additionally, the Board suggests “to the referenced community groups that the CCT-RT's proposed priority levels be taken into account as the groups decide whether, how and when to address the CCT-RT recommendations that are being passed through […]”. Additionally, we would like to flag the Board suggestion that for transparency purposes, “it would be helpful to have records or reporting made available to the ICANN community on how the community group considered the items coming out of the CCT-RT. The Board encourages any level of reporting that the groups are able to provide as the ICANN org and Board track action on the CCT-RT's recommendations”. Please consider providing updates on your progress in addressing (as appropriate) this recommendation, to be included with ICANN org’s reporting. Background The Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) released its Final Report on 8 September 2018 – see https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cct-final-08sep18-en.pdf. The CCT-RT Final Report contains 35 recommendations and is the culmination of nearly three years of work, reviewing how the expansion of top-level domain names impacted competition, consumer trust and choice. For more information on the CCT Review and Specific Reviews, please read https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en#article4.6. The ICANN Board took action on each of the 35 recommendations produced by the CCT-RT - see https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-03-01-en - on 1 March 2019 and was informed by public comment input received on the Final report (see https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cct-final-recs-2018-10-08-en) The Board’s decisions on each recommendation is documented in the scorecard published at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/resolutions-final-cct-recs-scor…. A blog post on the Board action can be found at https://www.icann.org/news/blog/board-action-on-competition-consumer-trust-… for more context. We thank you for your collaboration in considering the CCT-RT output. Please let us know whether you have any questions. Thank you. Best regards Larisa Gurnick Vice-President, Multi-stakeholder Strategy & Strategic Initiatives, ICANN

2 1

Helpful information / Calendar view of meetings
by Terri Agnew June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019

Dear all, To help stay organized, in addition to the ics to download on your calendars there are three resources for you to find meeting dates and times for Council, PDP, EPDP and CCWG- Auction Proceed meetings. 1. Global calendar: All SO and AC events: https://features.icann.org/calendar 2. GNSO Master calendar: GNSO Working Groups, Council events, transcriptions, and recordings: https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar 3. GNSO Wiki: Working Groups and Council meeting agendas, recordings, notes, action items and background documents: https://community.icann.org/category/gnso Thank you. With kind regards, Terri --- Terri Agnew Operations Support - GNSO Lead Administrator Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: terri.agnew(a)icann.org<mailto:terri.agnew@icann.org> Skype ID: terri.agnew.icann Find out more about the GNSO by visiting: https://learn.icann.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__learn.icann.org_&d=DwM…> Follow @GNSO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICANN_GNSO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_ICANN-5FGN…> Transcripts and recordings of GNSO Working Group and Council events are located on the GNSO Master Calendar <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gnso.icann.org_en_grou…> See All SO and AC events on the ICANN Global calendar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__features.icann.org_cal…>

1 0

RPM PDP WG Sunrise Sub Team Status Report 03 June 2018
by Julie Hedlund June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019

Dear members of the RPM PDP WG, On behalf of David McAuley and Greg Shatan, Co-Chairs of the Sunrise Sub Team, please see below the weekly progress report to the full RPM PDP WG. Greg acted as chair during the meeting<https://community.icann.org/display/RARPMRIAGPWG/2019-05-29+Sub+Team+for+Su…> on Wednesday, 29 May. Overview: * By ICANN65, the Sub Team aims to complete developing proposed answers and preliminary recommendations for a total of twelve (12) Agreed Sunrise Charter Questions and reviewing a total of ten (10) Individual Proposals. * To date, the Sub Team has discussed all Agreed Sunrise Charter Questions and Individual Proposals. Discussions took place during meetings and via discussion threads on the mailing list. * In preparation for the report to the full WG, the Sub Team is reviewing the draft language for proposed answers and preliminary recommendations. * Based on current progress, the Sub Team is projected to complete its work by not later than ICANN65, with a goal to finish earlier. The Sub Team’s task is to develop proposed answers and preliminary recommendations with regard to the Agreed Sunrise Charter Questions, as well as review individual proposals and determine the level of support for inclusion in the Initial Report. 29 May Meeting: the Sub Team discussed proposed answers and preliminary recommendations and concluded the review of related individual proposal: * Q1 & Proposal #9 * Q2 05 June Meeting: the Sub Team will discuss proposed answers and preliminary recommendations and conclude the review of related individual proposals: * Q3 & Proposals #10 and #11 * Q4 * Q5(a) * Q6 & Proposals #2 and #4 * Q7 Discussion Threads: they have been opened for final mailing list discussions related to the following Agreed Sunrise Charter Questions, including relevant Individual Proposals. * Closed on 15 May: * Q1 (including Proposal #9) * Open until 23:59 UTC on 05 June: * Preamble Q (& Proposals #1, #3, #8) * Q3 (& Proposals #10 & #11) - extended * Q4 - extended * Q5(a) - extended * Q5(b) (& Proposal #7) * Q6 (& Proposals #2 & #4) - extended * Q8/Q12 * Q9 (& Proposal #13) – extended * Q10 * Q11 Documents Wiki: Find discussion threads, summary tables, and other working documents of the Sunrise Sub Team on https://community.icann.org/x/_oIWBg.

1 0

RPM PDP WG Trademark Claims Sub Team Status Report 03 June 2019
by Julie Hedlund June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019

Dear members of the RPM PDP WG, On behalf of Martin Silva and Roger Carney, Co-Chairs of the TM Claims Sub Team, please see below the weekly progress report to the full RPM PDP WG. Roger acted as chair during the meeting<https://community.icann.org/display/RARPMRIAGPWG/2019-05-29+Sub+team+for+Tr…> on Wednesday, 29 May. Overview: * By ICANN65, the Sub Team aims to complete discussing a total of five (5) Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions and reviewing a total of five (5) Individual Proposals. * To date, the Sub Team has discussed all Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions and Individual Proposals. Discussions took place during meetings and via discussion threads on the mailing list. * In preparation for the report to the full WG, the Sub Team is reviewing the draft language for proposed answers and preliminary recommendations. * Based on current progress, the Sub Team is projected to complete its work by not later than mid-June, with a goal to finish earlier. The Sub Team’s task is to develop proposed answers and preliminary recommendations with regard to the Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions, as well as review individual proposals and determine the level of support for inclusion in the Initial Report. 29 May Meeting: the Sub Team reviewed the proposed answers and preliminary recommendations for Q3. 05 June Meeting: the Sub Team will review the proposed answers and preliminary recommendations for Q4. Discussion Threads: For final mailing list discussions related to the following Agreed TM Claims Charter Questions, including relevant Individual Proposals: * Closed on 17 May: * Q1 (including Proposals #5 & #6) * Q3 * Closed on 31 May: * Q4 * Q2 (including Proposals #1 & #12) * Q5 Documents Wiki: Find discussion threads, summary tables, and other working documents of the TM Claims Sub Team on https://community.icann.org/x/9YIWBg.

1 0