Re: [council] BRG FAQ Specification 13 - GNSO Council Discussion 10 Apr.

[Amr Elsadr <aelsadr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks. It seems reasonable to have Martin Sutton available on tomorrow’s call. 
I have been trying to catch up on this issue and prepare to be as informed as 
possible before our discussion tomorrow. We will only have 20 minutes for this 
purpose on tomorrow’s call as per the posted meeting agenda, so I have doubts 
about how informed we will be at the meeting’s end.

We will however have time to explore this issue further following the call, and 
I would like to second the idea Thomas suggested on another thread of reaching 
out to some of the original WG members to get some insight on the context of 
the original WG recommendation and discussions leading up to them. Although it 
seems the .Brand registries model was not taken into consideration at the time, 
a briefing by the WG members may help us reach a decision on how to proceed 
with our response to the board.

Thanks.

Amr

On Apr 9, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Robinson <jrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
>  
> Please see the note below (and associate attachment) from Martin Sutton.
>  
> In the interests of achieving our objective tomorrow i.e. being as fully 
> informed as possible, I propose to take him up on his offer of being 
> available to answer questions.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jonathan
>  
> From: martinsutton@xxxxxxxx [mailto:martinsutton@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 April 2014 10:38
> To: Jonathan Robinson
> Subject: BRG FAQ Specification 13 - GNSO Council Discussion 10 Apr.
>  
> Dear Jonathan, 
> 
> I note that the next GNSO Council meeting is scheduled for 10 April and 
> includes a discussion item for Specification 13 and the proposed 
> incorporation of an additional clause, which the NGPC has referred to GNSO. 
> 
> In order to support these discussions, the Brand Registry Group (BRG) has 
> prepared the following set of FAQs that I trust will assist the GNSO 
> Council's deliberations: 
> 
> Furthermore, I would be glad to make myself available to join the the 
> telephone meeting on 10 April to answer any resulting or related questions. 
> If this would be helpful, please advise me of the time and contact 
> information. 
> 
> Finally, you may have already seen that ICANN has recently posted the 
> correspondence from Gretchen Olive, CSC, which was sent through on the 
> morning of the NGPC meeting in Singapore.  The correspondence includes 
> letters from 48 .brand applicants, arranged in just a couple of days, urging 
> ICANN to reinstate the exclusive registrar provision.  Considering most of 
> these companies are not BRG members and would have had to jump considerable 
> hoops in order to issue public statements of this nature, I think it is 
> useful for the GNSO Council to bear in mind when considering their response 
> to spec 13 - there is a much broader impact than just the BRG.  A copy of the 
> correspondence can be found here - 
> http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/olive-to-crocker-et-al-26mar14-en.pdf.
>  
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Martin Sutton 
> President, Brand Registry Group 
> 
> 
> Martin C SUTTON 
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