[council] RE: Preparation for discussion on Item 5 Letter from ICANN Board Chair on Exclusive Registry Access for gTLD Terms representing Generic Strings

["Austin, Donna" <Donna.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the prompt Glen.

I have a question for those on the Council who are much more familiar with the 
New gTLD PDP. Is the GAC advice that the NGPC adopted inconsistent with the 
original policy? And if it is, should the NGPC be informed accordingly.

If I understand the issue correctively, there were a number of applicants who 
sought to operate closed generic TLDs (or exclusive registry access); however, 
as a result of the NGPC's acceptance of GAC advice the applicant had to change 
their application to reflect an open registry or accept that it will not 
possible to operate a closed generic in the current round. The NGPC is not 
rejecting the remaining handful of closed generic applications, but have chosen 
to defer them to a subsequent round and I think this is why the Council has 
received the letter from Dr Crocker. It will be necessary to have address this 
as a policy issue in the context of the subsequent round PDP.

Perhaps we need a bit more of the backstory on this one.

Thanks

Donna

Donna Austin: Neustar, Inc.
Policy and Industry Affairs Manager
Cell: +1.310.890.9655 Email: 
donna.austin@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:donna.austin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Glen de Saint Géry
Sent: Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:52 AM
To: GNSO Council List (council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [council] Preparation for discussion on Item 5 Letter from ICANN Board 
Chair on Exclusive Registry Access for gTLD Terms representing Generic Strings


Dear Councillors,



We would like to remind you of the 
letter<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_correspondence_crocker-2Dto-2Drobinson-2D27jul15-2Den.pdf&d=AwMFAw&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=4A3LwUUER9_CePZ11QJsr56eryGQiPHEqv4TL7JH87w&m=JO049AZgl1OxfYX9i-iLb48As9xDCyWzTZu9sDnd-bo&s=RnnanKBb6k_KqZolyri7qfigycXh7h5X5yqZVMHDCXQ&e=>
 from Steve Crocker to Jonathan Robinson re:  ICANN  Board New  gTLD  Program  
Committee Resolution Concerning  Exclusive  Registry  Access  for  gTLD  
Strings  Representing  Generic  Terms which is the subject for discussion in 
Item 5 on the GNSO Council agenda and noted below. There was one 
comment<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gnso.icann.org_mailing-2Dlists_archives_council_msg17369.html&d=AwMFAw&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=4A3LwUUER9_CePZ11QJsr56eryGQiPHEqv4TL7JH87w&m=JO049AZgl1OxfYX9i-iLb48As9xDCyWzTZu9sDnd-bo&s=-UE_w4mKvG9x1Idq0Yw7XQYJNwgrWPWd9NCTvzJ3S0A&e=>
 on the Council list from James Bladel and we encourage you to prepare for this 
discussion at the Council meeting on Thursday and perhaps also provide comments 
on the Council list in preparation.



Item 5: COUNCIL DISCUSSION - Letter from ICANN Board Chair on Exclusive 
Registry Access for gTLD Terms representing Generic Strings (10 minutes)

On 27 July 2015 the ICANN Board Chair sent a letter to the GNSO Chair 
requesting that the GNSO specifically include the issue of exclusive registry 
access for generic strings serving a public interest goal as part of the policy 
work it is planning to initiate on subsequent rounds of the New gTLD Program. 
The GNSO was also asked to inform the Board on a regular basis with regards to 
progress on the issue. Here the Council will discuss the letter and decide on 
its response.

on the GNSO Council agenda, refers to the letter from Steve Crocker to Jonathan 
Robinson



Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Glen



Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

http://gnso.icann.org