[registrars] Call for participants in Protecting Rights of Others Working Group

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hello All,

The GNSO Council is forming a working group to consider current practices and whether they should be changed or standardized with respect to Protecting Rights of Others in domain name registration processes.  The working group is an off-shoot of the discussions in the new gTLD committee with respect to start-up processes for new gTLDs.

See below for more details.

Please let the GNSO Secretariat (Glen de Saint Géry) or Dr Liz Williams know if you wish to participate.   The working group is open to any member of the registrars constituency.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Liz Williams
Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:12 AM
To: GNSO Council
Cc: Glen de Saint Gery
Subject: [council] Protecting Rights of Others Working Group: Meeting Call

Colleagues


There has been something of a lag on getting the PRO-WG group off the  
ground. To address that in an efficient manner, I will be convening  
the first meeting of the group on Tuesday 20 Feb at 7:30 LA, 10:30 am  
EST, 15:30 UTC, 16:30 CET.

Please review the latest draft of the Statement of Work found at  
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03194.html

At the first meeting we will:

1.  appoint a chair of the group

2.  review the existing Statement of Work and agree its final form

3.  agree the first tranche of activities to be completed between now  
and the ICANN Lisbon meeting

The rules of the Working Group will be similar to those of the IDN-WG  
(found at http://gnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18nov06.htm)

Can I urge you please to consult with your constituencies and propose  
participants for the group?  It is MOST likely that there will be an  
aggressive schedule of activities to support the work as this work is  
being conducted in the context of the new TLDs Committee activities  
and is time critical.  This will mean small working groups or  
individual efforts and, at a minimum, a weekly conference call.

Please respond to the GNSO secretariat to indicate that you or your  
constituency representative wants to be included in a new public  
mailing list.

Kind regards and, of course, any questions, please call or email.

Liz

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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels