[ALAC] Request for input from the ALAC into the IRT's work on trademark issues with the introduction of new gTLDs

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr]

<CLO>Hi Evan  see my reply points inter-spaced below...

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
>   
>> Firstly I have included in the body of this message a copy in full, of a
>> formal request from the President of the GNSO's Intellectual Property
>> Constituency, Mr. Steve Metalitz, requesting  ALAC specific input into this
>> process in a very short time frame (we will add this to the Agenda for our
>> March 24th ALAC Meeting) and pointing out the opportunity for individual
>> (here I encourage  also ALSes and RALO's to also respond directly)
>> submissions to be provided directly to *ip-issues at icann.org*<ip-issues at icann.org>.
>>
>> Secondly  two suitably qualified ALAC Members (in their individual capacity)
>> have offered themselves to the IRT as Members  these are  Mr. Beau Brendler,
>> and Ms. Vanda Scartezini,  I would like at the ALAC Meeting to endorse these
>> two IRT Members as formal representatives of the ALAC to this WG, and
>> encourage discussion in the ALAC Working List regarding this matter prior to
>> our discussion of this as an Agenda item at te March meeting as well...
>>   
>>     
> I'm a little confused by this.
>   
<CLO>Evan as far as I knew the deadline to propose members of the IRT 
was Friday, 13th March, and by the PDT time allocated I knew only of the 
names of Beau and Vanda being out forward...  The IRT *is* looking fore 
Public Comment as outlined in the letter I got from Steve where he asked 
for specific  ALAC input... If there is updated or different information 
circulating then I am not privy to that...
> Beau brought up this issue at today's NARALO conference call and said
> that the IRT was looking for public participants. Is this need satisfied
> by the appointment of Beau and Vanda? Is your call only for members of
> an ALAC subcommittee or is the IRT looking for other participants?
>   
<CLO>  My call was specific to getting participation into an ALAC WG  
and that is deliberately set at a lower level of participation than what 
I understand the IRT per se is asking for... Hopefully we can  get at 
least 2-3 people from each Region able to commit enough time to support  
Beau and Vanda as ALAC endorsed Reps to the IRT (I hope) as well as 
assist in formulating the basis for Regional and ALAC comments on the 
matter...
> (I say this because I committed to help find more participants in the
> NARALO call; I'd just like clarity on the nature of the potential
> recruitment. Beau had mentioned that the committee was looking for a
> pretty heavy time committment amongst its members.
>
> - Evan
>   
<CLO> I hope you and each of the leaders in the RALO's can do the same 
either for the  Ad-Hoc ALAC WG I am proposing  OR on the IRT per se if 
my information is incorrect...  I hope this helps perhaps  Staff can 
confirm whether my assumptions on this have been correct or not...
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