[council] GAC UDRP position

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Councillors,

Please find below a message Heather sent me. I asked if I could share it with 
the Council and she responded that was fine.

Thanks,

Stéphane



Début du message réexpédié :

> De : <Heather.Dryden@xxxxxxxx>
> Objet : GNSO call/UDRP
> Date : 22 septembre 2011 04:03:05 HAEC
> À : <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Dear Stephane
> 
> One of my GAC members has alerted me to the blog post cited below, asserting 
> that the GAC position on the UDRP review was somehow drafted by the law firm, 
> Covington and Burling.  In the event this issue might be raised during your 
> Council call on September 22, I felt it important to assure you that the GAC 
> position was in fact drafted by a small group of GAC members, circulated to 
> the entire GAC list, and edited by a number of GAC members before being 
> finalized.  It is my understanding that one of the GAC members involved in 
> the initial drafting exercise did consult with domestic stakeholders and 
> accepted a proposed edit from a lawyer with Covington and Burling to insert a 
> direct reference to the Board’s rationale for approving the new gTLD program, 
> with a cite to that report.  For reasons I do not understand, the tag to the 
> firm remained in subsequent versions of the draft and now appears in the 
> final version as well.  That should not be understood by the GNSO Council to 
> suggest that the firm drafted the GAC text.  Thank you for your attention to 
> this matter. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Heather
> 
> 
>