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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ayden Férdeline<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 28, 2017 4:08 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Fw: Proposed comment on .NET RA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings, all-<br>
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Ed Morris has kindly drafted a comment on behalf of the NCSG on the .NET Renewal Agreement. Over the coming days the Policy Committee will consider endorsing it. If you have any comments or suggested edits, please feel free to comment on the Google Doc itself
(link in the email chain below, along with a summary of the issue) or in this thread. As the submission deadline is Tuesday, please comment by Monday if you have anything that you would like the Policy Committee to be aware of. Thank you!
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ayden Férdeline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline" title="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline">linkedin.com/in/ferdeline</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Subject: Proposed comment on .NET RA<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Local Time: May 28, 2017 3:13 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">UTC Time: May 28, 2017 2:13 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From: <a href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net">egmorris1@toast.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To: Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com">icann@ferdeline.com</a>>, Poncelet Ileleji <<a href="mailto:pileleji@ymca.gm">pileleji@ymca.gm</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ncsg-pc <<a href="mailto:ncsg-pc@lists.ncsg.is">ncsg-pc@lists.ncsg.is</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">During our most recent Policy Committee meeting we decided that we were not going to submit a comment on the .NET Renewal Agreement. For the first time in years
ICANN was presenting a legacy gTLD renewal agreement that wasn’t noxious. Specifically, there was no effort to expand the URS and PDDP into the legacy gTLDs thus creating de facto consensus policy by staff negotiated contract. This is an issue the NCSG has
been very vocal about in the past. In fact, we did a joint comment on it with the Business Constituency (BC) that created a bit of a stir in the industry press (<a href="http://domainincite.com/19450-odd-couple-coalition-wants-urs-deleted-from-legacy-gtld-contracts">http://domainincite.com/19450-odd-couple-coalition-wants-urs-deleted-from-legacy-gtld-contracts</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Well, I now think we should submit a public comment on the Agreement. To support it. The IPC has rallied its troops to try to convince the Board to require the
inclusion of the URS and PDDP in the RA. (<a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-net-renewal-20apr17/attachments/20170521/d67e3bb5/INTAdotNETRenewalFINAL05-21-17-0001.pdf">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-net-renewal-20apr17/attachments/20170521/d67e3bb5/INTAdotNETRenewalFINAL05-21-17-0001.pdf</a>
). I don’t think we need to have an elaborate comment but I do think we need to show the flag. When ICANN finally does something we’ve been pressing them to do for a few years we should acknowledge it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">1. Commending ICANN and Verisign for agreeing to let Consensus Policies dictate IP protection requirements rather than imposing the staff created new gTLD RPM’s
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">These are both traditional NCSG positions and I hope we can quickly reach agreement on them. Overall, I believe it’s a good agreement and it is certainly much better
than the last few RA’s. I have a few quibbles about some of the pricing arrangements but in an effort to keep the comment short and focused on the IP issue, and to quickly get consensus here, I thought it best to forgo commenting on them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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