RE: [council] RE: Did we receive a briefing paper on the process for amendments to sTLD charters?

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Understood. Not sure it was ever communicated that way to the Council as
a whole, and since it doesn't even mention sTLDs it's difficult to see
how it even comes close to fulfilling what was asked for. 


Tim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [council] RE: Did we receive a briefing paper on the
> process for amendments to sTLD charters?
> From: "Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, September 30, 2011 8:17 am
> To: Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "krosette@xxxxxxx" <krosette@xxxxxxx>,       
> "council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> You are not going to get a disagreement from me that this paper is 
> fundamentally flawed, but I am only conveying the answer I got when I asked 
> the question back in March, that staff thought this paper addressed the 
> particular resolution Kristina pointed to.
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> Jeffrey J. Neuman 
> Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
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> From: Tim Ruiz [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 8:33 AM
> To: Neuman, Jeff
> Cc: krosette@xxxxxxx; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [council] RE: Did we receive a briefing paper on the process for 
> amendments to sTLD charters?
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> Jeff,
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> That is not the briefing paper for amending sTLD charters. It refers
> only to the new Community gTLDs. There are some similarities between
> sTLDs and Community gTLDs, but there are major differences in their
> structure and how they were/are allocated. IMO, amending a sTLD charter
> is a fundamentally different issue than the Community gTLD Change
> discussed in the paper you refer to.
> 
> Tim
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [council] RE: Did we receive a briefing paper on the process
> > for amendments to sTLD charters?
> > From: "Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, September 29, 2011 5:04 pm
> > To: "Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx>, 
> > "'council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Kristina,
> > � 
> > A paper was posted on February 21, 2011 
> > (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/explantory-memo-community-change-request-21feb11-en.pdf);
> >  which was heavily objected to on a number of grounds by the RySG.�  In 
> > our view, there were a number of flawed assumptions in there as well as too 
> > heavy a hand by ICANN.�  
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> > I am not sure if someone from staff forwarded this to you, so I thought I 
> > would and send it to the Council. � At a few of the meetings, I brought 
> > this up at the council level (in San Francisco in particular), but the 
> > Council did not seem interested in taking it up at the time (or maybe they 
> > weren&#8217;t paying attention J)
> > � 
> > Jeffrey J. Neuman 
> > Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
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> > From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> > Behalf Of Rosette, Kristina
> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:48 AM
> > To: 'council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [council] Did we receive a briefing paper on the process for 
> > amendments to sTLD charters?
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> > All,
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> > I was just reading the BGC's December 9, 2010 recommendation on the .jobs 
> > Charter Compliance Coalition reconsideration request and came across this 
> > footnote on page 12:�  
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> > 4 The BGC also thinks that the Board should address the need for a process 
> > to evaluate amendments that may have the effect of changing, or seeking to 
> > change, an sTLD Charter or Stated Purpose of a sponsored, restricted or 
> > community-based TLD. Because such a process may impact gTLDs greatly and is 
> > a policy issue, the GNSO is the natural starting point for evaluating such 
> > a process. We therefore further recommend that the Board direct the CEO to 
> > create a briefing paper for the GNSO to consider on this matter, and for 
> > the GNSO to determine whether a policy development process should be 
> > commenced.�  
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> > I don't recall receiving any such briefing paper.�  Did we receive one?�  
> > If so, would the relevant staff person mind sending me a copy of it?�  
> > Thanks!
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> > K
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