RE: [council] URS follow-up

["Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I am not sure why we are giving this request any credibility.  Sorry for my 
bluntness, but no one answered my questions during the GNSO session or 
afterwards.  We seem to be conceding to ICANN that a team is necessary to 
revise URS policy even before seeing any of the results of the RFI which we now 
know there is at least one bidder that will propose doing the URS in accordance 
with the current policies laid out in the Guidebook for the price expected.

To concede now that policy work needs to be done is conceding that the ICANN is 
in fact held hostage by the current vendors providing existing UDRP services.  
If we do indeed need to develop new policies around the URS (which at this 
point in time, there is no evidence that this needs to be done), I think we 
should address it then.  But aren't we putting the cart before the horse?

All of those caveats aside, if we are forced to set up a group, you can count 
on my participation.

Thanks!

Jeffrey J. Neuman
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs


From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Thomas Rickert
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:17 PM
To: Jonathan Robinson
Cc: 'Petter Rindforth'; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] URS follow-up

I would like to  join this, too!

Thomas


Am 22.10.2012 um 22:35 schrieb Jonathan Robinson 
<jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:


Many thanks Peter.

Good to have you on board for this and other items.

Best wishes,


Jonathan

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[mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf 
Of Petter Rindforth
Sent: 22 October 2012 00:38
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jonathan Robinson
Subject: Re: [council] FW: URS follow-up

Dear Jonathan and All new Colleagues,

Just to express my interest in participate in the further work with URS (as it 
seems we now have to).

I have experience as an .xxx Arbitrator and also created the Swedish ADR 
Accelerated Proceeding, so I hope I can therewith add some ideas  - and 
questions  - in order to have a fast as possible final solution regarding the 
URS.

Best,
Petter


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Thank you
On 21 okt 2012 23:44 "Jonathan Robinson" 
<jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx><mailto:jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All,

Please be aware of the following note from Olof Nordling when we next consider 
the URS and associated issues.

Jonathan

From: Olof Nordling [mailto:olof.nordling@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 October 2012 15:33
To: jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jonathan.robinson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kurt Pritz
Subject: URS follow-up

Dear Jonathan,
Congratulations to your recent election as GNSO Council Chair and many thanks 
to you and to all Council members for the constructive discussions we had on 
URS matters on 18 October! The willingness to consider a drafting team to 
address URS implementation questions and issues is much appreciated.

The subsequent URS session the same day in Toronto proved most interesting. In 
addition to presentations from NAF and WIPO as  potential URS providers, we had 
the advantage of a very late addition to the agenda - a presentation from a 
"new entrant", Intersponsive, intending to respond to the RFI with a proposal 
within the target fee, although with some adjustments of the URS provisions. 
Also NAF clarified that they would be able to stay within the target fee, 
provided reasonable limitations could be established to the current translation 
requirements and to the number of domain names covered by a single complaint.

I realize that you and other Council members couldn't attend this session, as 
it partially overlapped with the GNSO Council session, but the recording is 
available at http://audio.icann.org/meetings/toronto2012/urs-18oct12-en.mp3. 
Furthermore, there are a number of relevant documents posted on our recently 
established URS web page at http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/urs, 
notably contributions from NAF, WIPO and CAC, with considerations, proposals, 
some costing aspects and, most importantly, questions needing to be resolved 
(the NAF contribution is of particular interest in that regard).

I believe these recent developments further clarifies the need for a drafting 
team to establish realistic implementation measures based on the URS text. I 
look forward to further contacts with you and the Council on this matter in the 
near future.

Very best regards
Olof


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