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<p>Hi Farzi,</p>
<p>I am glad that you have this meeting. I would like to know why
the efforts of the Consensus Policy continue to be undermined by
ICANN Counsel and Staff? For example, we negotiated limited
protections for trademark owners in New gTLDs. They were designed
to prevent the massive cybersquatting that trademark owners feared
in the roll-out of hundreds of new gTLDs in a short period of
time. <br>
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<p>(I should note that the mass chaos never occurred; nor the mass
cybersquatting.)</p>
<p>But ICANN Counsel and staff are unilaterally extending these
policies into areas they never belonged - into the legacy gTLDs.
NCSG and CSG filed a joint objection (courtesy of Ed Morris and
Phil Corwin) questioning the extension of the URS (Uniform Rapid
Suspension) to older gTLDs in their contract negotiations - a
Consensus Policy extended without rhyme or reason, public input
nor discussion. <br>
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We are seeing similar work which ignores and shunts aside Consensus
Policies - particularly those balances and compromises that protect
noncommercial registrants and especially noncommercial speech, free
expression and trademark fair use online - in other areas as well.
It makes it very difficult and frustrating for volunteers to spend
hundreds of hours negotiating policies that are then thrown out,
limited or circumvented by other means available to ICANN.<br>
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I'm happy to discuss this with you further. I think this would be a
great area for discussion with ICANN's CEO.<br>
Best, <br>
Kathy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/6/2017 7:25 AM, farzaneh badii
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meeting with the ICANN CEO next week. If you would like me to
discuss a topic with him, please share it on this list by 10
Feb. Since this is a 30 minute talk I cannot cover everything
but I will try my best to at least mention some of the
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