[council] Proposed Friendly Amendment to Motion for the Response to ICANN Board letter to GNSO Council

["Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx>]

All,
I would like to propose the following friendly amendment to the motion
for the response to ICANN Board letter to GNSO Council that Adrian
proposed and Tim seconded:
"The assistance of members of the Implementation Recommendation Team
("IRT") in answering questions about the IP Clearinghouse and Uniform
Rapid Suspension System recommendations may be useful in the drafting
process.  The GNSO Council requests that those members of the IRT who
worked on those recommendations be available to answer any such
questions that may arise, and encourages the GNSO Review Team to avail
itself of this resource."
I have set forth below a revised proposed motion that includes the
friendly amendment as the second and third sentences of  #4.
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WHEREAS, the ICANN Board has requested that the GNSO evaluate certain
ICANN staff implementation proposals for the protection of trademarks in
new gTLDs based in part on the recommendations from the Implementation
Recommendation Team ("IRT"), public comments, and additional analysis
undertaken by ICANN Staff, as described in the letter dated 12 October
2009 <<Letter from Rod Beckstrom & Peter Dengate Thrush to GNSO Council
<http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/beckstrom-to-gnso-council-12oct09-
en.pdf> >>.
WHEREAS, the ICANN Board letter requests the GNSO's view by December 14,
2009 on whether certain rights protection mechanisms for second level
strings recommended by ICANN Staff based on public input are consistent
with the GNSO's proposed policy on the introduction of new gTLDs, and
are the appropriate and effective options for achieving the GNSO's
stated principles and objectives;
WHEREAS, the GNSO has reviewed the ICANN Board letter and desires to
approve the procedures for conducting such evaluation;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the GNSO adopts the following process
to conduct the evaluation requested by the Board:
1. A GNSO Review Team will be comprised of representatives designated as
follows: the Registrar and Registry Stakeholder Groups with two (2)
representatives each, the Commercial Stakeholder Groups and the
Non-Commercial Stakeholder Groups with four (4) representatives each,
and At-Large with two (2) representatives and one representative from
the Nominating Committee Appointees(1);
2. Each of the Stakeholder Groups will solicit from their members their
initial position statements on the questions and issues raised by the
ICANN Board letter and the ICANN Staff proposed models for the
implementation of the Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid
Suspension model, and will deliver their initial position statements on
November 4, and with final position statements to be delivered by
November 6, 2009;
3. Such position statements will be summarized by ICANN Staff and
distributed to the GNSO Review Team to evaluate whether a consensus can
be reached on the ICANN Staff implementation models or other proposals
for the protection of trademarks in the New gTLD Program;
4.  The GNSO Review Team will conduct its analysis, identify those areas
where consensus has already been reached, and seek to develop consensus
on those issues for which consensus could not be determined. The
assistance of members of the IRT in answering questions about the IP
Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension System recommendations may be
useful to this work.  The GNSO Council requests that members of the IRT
who worked on those recommendations be available to answer any such
questions that may arise, and encourages the GNSO Review Team to avail
itself of this resource; and 
5.  The GNSO Review Team will provide a final report to the GNSO on or
before the GNSO Council's meeting in late November, 2009.
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K