RE: [council] TMCH RPM Requirements draft document

["Jonathan Robinson" <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

 

We have a full agenda developing for the 10 October 2013.  

 

It will be helpful to have other comments on this along the lines of:

 

1.       Is this an issue for the Council?

2.       If so:

a.       Do you have similarly felt or related / connected concerns?

b.      Is this a unusual / unique / a precedent?

c.       What should the Council be doing about it?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Jonathan

 

From: Volker Greimann [mailto:vgreimann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 01 October 2013 09:33
To: Marika Konings
Cc: Glen de Saint Géry; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] TMCH RPM Requirements draft document

 

Hi Marika,

thank you for that clarification. While this relieves part of my concern, I
still feel that "baking" a single constituency into such a process and
handing out special benefits is not the proper procedure for a
multi-stakeholder organization, even if it is an opt-in process for the
applicant.

Best,

Volker

Dear All,

 

Please find below a response from Cyrus Namazi in relation to the paragraph
referred to by Volker.

 

Best regards,

 

Marika

 

In response to community input, the TMCH Requirements were revised to allow
registry operators the ability to submit applications to conduct launch
programs.  In response to the large number of Geo TLDs who voiced similar
concerns, the IPC publicly stated that it would be willing to work with Geo
TLDs to develop mutually acceptable language for Geo TLD launch programs.
We viewed this proposal as a way for community members to work collectively
to propose to ICANN a possible solution for an issue specifically affecting
intellectual property rights-holders and Geo TLDs.  Any such proposal will
be subject to ICANN's review and ICANN has expressly stated that any such
proposal may be subject to public comment in which other interested
community members may participate. This is captured in Section 4.5.3.

 

As an alternative, applicants can unilaterally apply for a program exemption
under another provision of the requirements (Section 4.5.2).  IPC was added
to facilitate the discussion; not a condition to that requirement. 

 

From: Volker Greimann <vgreimann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday 30 September 2013 19:03
To: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [council] TMCH RPM Requirements draft document

 

Dear fellow councillors,

in the last week ICANN has released a final draft version of the TMCH RPM
Requirements, which contains in section 4.5.3 a paragraph that I find to be
questionable:





4.5.3If registry operators that indicated in their applications for their
TLDs that their TLD would be a geographic name (?Geo TLDs?) and
representatives of the Intellectual Property Constituency recommend to ICANN
the creation of a registration program (...)


 

Further, stakeholder groups and constituencies may change over time, so
referencing one in such a process description may cause problems down the
line.

I feel this topic needs to be raised on the council level as this is only
the most recent example of ICANN staff acting unilaterally in favoring one
interest over others. 



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Best regards,
 
Volker Greimann 

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