<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All, <div>The STI Team is meeting this evening at 5pm -- that's the group that will be negotiating the trademark and new gTLD issues.</div><div>While the meeting is mostly for Team members to meet each other and talk, it is open to all.</div><div>If you are interested, please come!</div><div>Robin<br><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><table width="863.0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 863.0px; margin: 0.0px 48.0px 0.0px 48.0px; padding: 2.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 857.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px 2.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; min-height: 19.0px"><br></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Times" size="5" color="#4f2c80" style="font: 16.0px Times; color: #4f2c80"><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-sti/msg00012.html"><u><<<</u></a></font><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"> <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-sti/index.html#00013"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>Chronological Index</u></font></a> <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-sti/msg00014.html"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>>>></u></font></a> <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-sti/msg00012.html"><font color="#4f2c80" style="color: #4f2c80"><u><<<</u></font></a> <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-sti/threads.html#00013"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>Thread Index</u></font></a> <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-sti/msg00015.html"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>>>></u></font></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; min-height: 19.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times"><b>[gnso-sti] Meeting Details for STI Review Team on Thursday Evening</b></font></p> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>To</i>: Council GNSO <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx" <gnso-sti@xxxxxxxxx></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Subject</i>: [gnso-sti] Meeting Details for STI Review Team on Thursday Evening</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>From</i>: Margie Milam <Margie.Milam@xxxxxxxxx></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Date</i>: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:19:17 -0700</font></li> </ul><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; min-height: 19.0px"><br></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Dear All,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">We have reserved the Astor Room on the 36th Floor for a face to face meeting of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">the STI Review Team on Thursday, October 29th from 5-6:30 pm. As a </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">reminder, each of the Stakeholder Groups should identify their representatives </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">to the Review Team in accordance with the proposed motion that will be voted </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">upon at the GNSO Council meeting on Wednesday. For your information, the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">proposed motion is below.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Best regards,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Margie Milam</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Senior Policy Counselor</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">ICANN</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">----------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">WHEREAS, the ICANN Board has requested that the GNSO evaluate certain ICANN </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">staff implementation proposals for the protection of trademarks in new gTLDs </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">based in part on the recommendations from the IRT, public comments, and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">additional analysis undertaken by ICANN Staff, as described in the letter dated </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">12 October 2009 <<Letter from Rod Beckstrom & Peter Dengate Thrush to GNSO </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Council<<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/beckstrom-to-gnso-council-12oct09-en.pdf"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/beckstrom-to-gnso-council-12oct09-en.pdf</u></font></a>>>>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">WHEREAS, the ICANN Board letter requests the GNSO's view by December 14, 2009 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">on whether certain rights protection mechanisms for second level strings </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">recommended by ICANN Staff based on public input are consistent with the GNSO's </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">proposed policy on the introduction of new gTLDs, and are the appropriate and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">effective options for achieving the GNSO's stated principles and objectives;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">WHEREAS, the GNSO has reviewed the ICANN Board letter and desires to approve </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">the procedures for conducting such evaluation;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the GNSO adopts the following process to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">conduct the evaluation requested by the Board:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">1. A GNSO Review Team will be comprised of representatives </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">designated as follows: the Registrar and Registry Stakeholder Groups with two </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">(2) representatives each, the Commercial Stakeholder Groups and the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Non-Commercial Stakeholder Groups with four (4) representatives each, and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">At-Large with two (2) representatives and one representative from the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Nominating Committee Appointees(1);</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">2. Each of the Stakeholder Groups will solicit from their </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">members their initial position statements on the questions and issues raised by </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">the ICANN Board letter and the ICANN Staff proposed models for the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">implementation of the Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">model, and will deliver their initial position statements on November 4, and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">with final position statements to be delivered by November 6, 2009;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">3. Such position statements will be summarized by ICANN Staff </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">and distributed to the GNSO Review Team to evaluate whether a consensus can be </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">reached on the ICANN Staff implementation models or other proposals for the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">protection of trademarks in the New gTLD Program; and</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">The GNSO Review Team will conduct its analysis, identify those areas where </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">consensus has already been reached, an seek to develop consensus on those </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">issues for which consensus could not be determined. The GNSO Review Team will </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">provide a final report to the GNSO on or before the GNSO council's meeting in </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">late November, 2009.</font></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>