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    re:finding if we are alone in this<br>
    <br>
    You all would know more than me about this but, aren't PDP's
    extensive, time-consuming, highly-political consultations that will
    always be regarded as exercises to be avoided if possible,
    especially late in a project's development?<br>
    <br>
    But I do agree about it anyhow, as +50 is so blatantly policy
    development.<br>
    <br>
    re:request, rationale and policy vs implementation<br>
    <br>
    The rationale hinted at ongoing and widespread internal debates b/w
    differing views as to what constitutes policy and what constitutes
    implementation.<br>
    <br>
    Anybody has a solid grasp of the articulated positions on this axis
    of debate at present? <br>
    <br>
    Specifically, I find it hard to categorize the rationale as a non
    norm-settling document in this debate.<br>
    <br>
    Indeed, how could<br>
    <br>
    i) an aspect (the 50 +) of a project that was discussed extensively
    prior to project implementation, as part of policy development (was
    it?), and deemed problematic by the community (wouldn't make the
    policy consensus at least if I got my facts right); how could such
    an aspect be *brought back* and reframed implementation? Are there
    any pro-implementation positions on the implementation vs policy
    debate that seek to disregard the "was priorly discussed and
    rejected as a matter of non-consensual policy" norm intension? it's
    not the fact that the CEO admitted to thinking the obvious that
    makes it policy, it's the fact that it was always viewed as policy
    ...<br>
    <br>
    ii) the 50 + introduction be deemed, objectively, "conservative".
    Because it can be undone? Note that this then becomes the test for
    implementation vs policy debates, no? <br>
    <br>
    Lastly, is it so hard to differentiate policy and implementation or,
    more to the point, implementations that have policy implications
    that renders it effectively policy?<br>
    <br>
    Nicolas<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/07/2013 2:47 AM, William Drake
      wrote:<br>
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      <div>I agree with Marie-Laure and would think pushing this in
        Council is a good antecedent step before trying for an IRP,
        inter alia as it would de-bilateralize things a bit and force
        some clarification of whether, upon reflection, anyone else is
        with us.  It'd also provide a clear operational plan for Durban,
        given that we'll be a bit short handed with respect to pursuing
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      <div>Bill</div>
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          <div>On Jul 4, 2013, at 3:22 AM, marie-laure Lemineur <<a
              moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mllemineur@gmail.com">mllemineur@gmail.com</a>>
            wrote:</div>
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            <div>Just an idea.....I don´t know if it is a good one
              but.....While I was reading the recommendation of the BGC,
              and bearing in mind what we discussed yesterday during our
              conference call, it struck me that we could follow the BGC
              suggestion/idea as quoted p.11 :</div>
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                    <p><span
                        style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">"Third,
                        the Chair of the GNSO Council’s response that
                        the previously abusive name issue
                        is “best addressed as a policy concern” does not
                        mean that staff has done more than
                        implementation or that staff has contradicted an
                        existing policy or process. Instead it actually
                        confirms the absence of clear Policy from the
                        GNSO beyond Recommendation 3. The staff
                        approach was conservative, and there is nothing
                        that cannot be undone.<b> The GNSO is free to
                          initiate a Policy Development Process in this
                          area to recommend a new Policy. If such GNSO
                          Policy concurs with the current implementation
                          approach, then there should be no issue. <u>If
                            an
                            eventual adopted Policy does not agree with
                            the current approach, the approach can be
                            overturned.</u></b><u>"</u></span></p>
                    <p><font size="3" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Request a
                        new PDP on the matter...</font></p>
                    <p><font size="3" face="TimesNewRomanPSMT">Of
                        course, this does not exclude that we can also
                        move forward in parallel and file for an
                        Independent Review Panel  OR we can decide to
                        choose the new PDP option/strategy and forget
                        about the Panel Review....</font></p>
                    <p><span
                        style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:medium">Best, </span></p>
                    <p><span
                        style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:medium">Marie-laure</span></p>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM,
                Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                    href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span>
                wrote:<br>
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                    <div>ICANN New gtld program committee adopted BGC's
                      revised rationale dismissing NCSG's request for
                      reconsideration.  We should file for an
                      Independent Review Panel determination and ask
                      ICANN and/or the arbitrators to waive our costs,
                      which are otherwise prohibitive.  There is no
                      accountability "within" ICANN, as this situation
                      has demonstrated.  We need to go outside of ICANN
                      to get any constraints on ICANN's lawlessness.  -
                      Robin</div>
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                    <div>2 July 2013 - Resolution Approved by ICANN
                      Board New GTLD Cmte:</div>
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                    <div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-02jul13-en.htm#1.a"
                        target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-02jul13-en.htm#1.a</a></div>
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Basic';font-weight:bold;font-size:1em;margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);line-height:21px">Revised
                        BGC Recommendation on Reconsideration Request
                        13-3</h4>
                      <p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.45em;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Whereas,
                        the Noncommercial Users Stakeholders Group's ("<abbr
                          title="Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group"
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:initial">NCSG</abbr>")
                        Reconsideration Request, Request 13-3, sought
                        reconsideration of the staff action of 20 March
                        2013 regarding "Trademark Claims Protections for
                        Previously Abused Names".</p>
                      <p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.45em;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Whereas,
                        the BGC considered the issues raised in
                        Reconsideration Request 13-3, as well as the
                        issues brought to and discussed by the <abbr
                          title="Generic Names Supporting Organization"
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:initial">GNSO</abbr> Council
                        regarding some of the language in the BGC's
                        Recommendation.</p>
                      <p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.45em;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Whereas,
                        the BGC revoked its initial recommendation, and
                        issued a Revised BGC Recommendation on
                        Reconsideration Request 13-3, which ultimately
                        recommended that no further action was warranted
                        with respect to Request 13-3.</p>
                      <p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.45em;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Resolved
                        (2013.07.02.NG01), the New <abbr title="generic
                          Top Level Domain"
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:initial">gTLD</abbr> Program
                        Committee adopts the Revised BGC Recommendation
                        on Reconsideration Request 13-3 <<a
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href="http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/governance/reconsideration/recommendation-ncsg-25jun13-en.pdf"
style="outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;color:rgb(239,103,62);text-decoration:none"
                          target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/governance/reconsideration/recommendation-ncsg-25jun13-en.pdf</a>>
                        [PDF, 142 KB].</p>
                      <p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.45em;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Heveltica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Resolved
                        (2013.07.02.NG02), the New <abbr title="generic
                          Top Level Domain"
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:initial">gTLD</abbr> Program
                        Committee directs <abbr title="Internet
                          Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers"
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:initial">ICANN</abbr>'s
                        President and CEO to assure that the issues
                        raised within Request 13-3 are brought to the
                        ongoing community discussion on policy versus
                        implementation within <abbr title="Internet
                          Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers"
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:initial">ICANN</abbr>.</p>
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            Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br>
            University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
          Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br>
            ICANN, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br>
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