Re: [council] Comments regarding the strawman

[Volker Greimann - Key-Systems GmbHz <vgreimann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mason, that would have been my view and resulting input as well.

Volker

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On 29.12.2012, at 01:33, Mason Cole <mcole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All --
> 
> I don't at all mean to pick on Brian personally, but I became aware earlier 
> of a news article covering our most recent council meeting.  (A side note: we 
> should remember that the media and others listen in on our call, and our 
> conversations are public and could end up in news coverage.)
> 
> The article says:
> Brian Winterfeldt, Steptoe & Johnson, an IPC representative on the GNSO 
> Council, said that the IPC does not agree with all points of the draft 
> response. The IPC understood the strawman proposal to be the product of 
> negotiations that resulted in a consensus among the participants―including 
> representatives from all ICANN constituencies, Winterfeldt said. 
> “Stakeholders who now say that rights protections should not be revisited 
> cast doubt on the good faith of negotiations.” 
> 
> For avoidance of doubt, I want to restate the RrSG's understandings.  Our 
> representatives in the meeting were there at Fadi's request to discuss the 
> trademark clearinghouse and to listen to staff's input on the strawman.  They 
> would not at all characterize that (or any meeting on the strawman) as a 
> negotiation, nor would they say consensus exists on the content of the 
> proposals.  It was clear there would be an opportunity for comment following 
> the meetings.  Our participation in those discussions can't be presumed to be 
> acceptance of the proposals or the process by which they were considered.
> 
> I made that point on our 20 December call, I believe, but thank you for 
> indulging my repeating it.
> 
> Mason
> 
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