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Dear Alan,<br>
<br>
thank you for your follow-up on this matter. It is good to see that,
after so much time going around playing cat and mouse and turning in
circles, things are actually moving. I can't say that I am 100%
pleased because I deplore the fact that so much time was taken to
make us lose our time whilst contracts were being signed in the
meantime -- which leaves a bitter after-taste. I am also worried in
the back of my mind, that this is another way to kick the cork ahead
a few more months, years, to keep us running after it.<br>
<br>
But let's remain positive! So we're set on a two-pronged track:<br>
- CCT-RT<br>
- PDP on next gTLD rounds<br>
<br>
In my opinion, we need to keep the same group of people to support
BOTH tracks, otherwise I am pretty sure that the issue will be
quietly dropped between the two tracks... as things sometimes are.
How are we going to strategize this? Which working group in ALAC
will follow this closely and support our representatives in both the
Review Team and the PDP Working Group?<br>
- New gTLD Working Group?<br>
- Registration Issues Working Group?<br>
- Newly established Public Interest Working Group?<br>
<br>
Looking forward to your kind reply.<br>
<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/03/2016 05:04, Alan Greenberg
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:81dbc4ea-2cd1-405b-b4d1-c92cd8887715@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA"
type="cite">
Thanks Olivier, you beat me to it.<br>
<br>
You will all recall that at the ALAC-Board meeting in Marrakech,
Cherine
Chalably had suggested that perhaps instead of forming a new group
to
inspect the Category 1, SG 1-8 TLDs, that the task could be
referred to
either or both of the CCT Review Team and the GNSO new gTLD PDP,
and he
suggested that a phone call be set up the following week to
discuss this.
That was done and I met with Cherine, Thomas Schneider and James
Bladel
last week. A summary of that meeting will be distributed shortly,
but the
letter that Olivier attached was the result. <br>
<br>
Although the Board cannot instruct either the RT or the PDP to do
anything, the letter does set some expectations. Moreover, I was
very
please when, on this week's meeting of the GTLD PDP, Jeff, Neuman,
one of
the co-chairs, presented a brief summary of the issues to be
discussed in
the PDP< and the issue of such "special" TLDs was covered
very well.<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
<br>
At 22/03/2016 03:49 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">FYI<br>
<br>
<br>
-------- Forwarded Message -------- <br>
Subject: [council] FW: [Correspondence from Steve Crocker] PICs
and
Category 1, Safeguard 1-8 TLDs <br>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:51:11 +0000 <br>
From: James M. Bladel
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<br>
To: GNSO Council List
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<br>
<br>
<br>
Council Colleagues - <br>
<br>
For your review, please see the attached letter from Steve
Crocker to the
chairs of the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice
Review Team
(CCT-RT), and the PDP WG on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
J.<br>
<br>
<br>
From: Wendy Profit
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><br>
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 13:47 <br>
To:
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cherine.chalaby@icann.org</a>>,
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alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>"
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>, James Bladel
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Jamie
Hedlund
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>, Steve Crocker
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Board-Ops-Team@icann.org</a>"
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Ullrich
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><br>
Subject: [Correspondence from Steve Crocker] PICs and Category
1,
Safeguard 1-8 TLDs<br>
<br>
Dear Jonathan, Avri, Stephen, and Jeff,<br>
<br>
Please find the attached letter from Steve Crocker on behalf of
the ICANN
Board regarding concerns raised by the ALAC and GAC around the
effectiveness of the contracted PICs for the GAC Category 1,
Safeguard
1-8 TLDs (“Safeguard PICs”).<br>
<br>
With warm regards,<br>
<br>
Wendy Profit<br>
ICANN Board Operations Specialist<br>
12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90094<br>
Mobile: 1-310-773-6811<br>
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