<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 25, 2013 3:25:48 PM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">liaison6c <<a href="mailto:liaison6c@gnso.icann.org">liaison6c@gnso.icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[liaison6c] Call for Volunteers: Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group Members - Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part D</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-25jan13-en.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-25jan13-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for Volunteers: Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group Members - Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part D</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US">In Brief</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span lang="EN-US">The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers to serve on a Working Group that will address issues related to the transfer of domain names between registrars. After investigating and considering specific issues (detailed below), the Working Group is expected to recommend how to handle these issues, which could include proposals for changes to the existing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://archive.icann.org/en/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(a consensus policy adopted in 2004).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US">What This Group Will Do</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span lang="EN-US">The initial tasks of the group will be to consider the following six questions<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super; ">[1]</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and make relevant recommendations to the GNSO Council:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span>a)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Whether reporting requirements for registries and dispute providers should be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; color: black; ">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">developed, in order to make precedent and trend information available to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; color: black; ">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">community and allow reference to past cases in dispute submissions;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span>b)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Whether additional provisions should be included in the TDRP (Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy) on how to handle disputes when multiple transfers have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; color: black; ">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">occurred;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span>c)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Whether dispute options for registrants should be developed and implemented as</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; color: black; ">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">part of the policy (registrants currently depend on registrars to initiate a dispute on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; color: black; ">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">their behalf);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span>d)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Whether requirements or best practices should be put into place for registrars to make information on transfer dispute resolution options available to registrants;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span>e)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Whether existing penalties for policy violations are sufficient or if additional provisions/penalties for specific violations should be added into the policy;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>f)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Whether the universal adoption and implementation of EPP AuthInfo codes has eliminated the need of FOAs.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US">How This Group Will Work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span lang="EN-US">ICANN Working Groups use transparent, open processes. The meetings of this WG will be recorded, and the recordings will be available to the public. The mailing list for the IRTP Part D WG will be archived publicly. Working Group members are expected to submit Statements of Interest (SOI). The group will collaborate using a public workspace. The Working Group is expected to follow the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="../../Library/Caches/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/Outlook%20Temp/gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-07apr11-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">GNSO Working Group Guidelines</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><b><span lang="EN-US">How to Join</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><span lang="EN-US">The Council invites interested parties to provide names of expected participants who can then be added to the WG mailing list. The GNSO Council may also invite stakeholders and experts to join. Participants in the Working Group that addressed IRTP Part C are especially encouraged to apply. Community members who wish to be invited to join the group should contact the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org?subject=Application%20to%20Join%20IRTP%20Part%20C%20Working%20Group" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">GNSO secretariat</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gnso.secretariat@icann.org</a>). This WG is already forming; please apply promptly.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; page-break-before: always; "><b><span lang="EN-US">Background</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: blue; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/transfers/policy-01jun12.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Inter‐Registrar Transfer Policy</span></a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(IRTP) is a consensus policy adopted in 2004 to provide a straightforward procedure for domain name holders to transfer domain names between registrars. An overall review of this policy identified areas that require clarification or improvement. At its meeting on 17 January 2013, the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council passed a resolution chartering a Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group (WG) to address the topic of Inter-Registrar Transfer Policies (IRTP) Part D. Because the initial review identified a wide range of issues related to transferring domain names, the issues have been categorized into subsets. This Working Group will tackle the issues referred to as “Part D”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Glen de Saint Géry</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://gnso.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><hr size="1" width="33%" align="left"></span></div></div></div><div><br clear="all"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"><div id="ftn1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; "><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">[1]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>See the final<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/issue-report-irtp-d-08jan13-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Issue Report on the IRTP Part D</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for further details on each of these issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><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="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><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></body></html>