[PC-NCSG] Kathy Kleiman will attend intercessional mtg next month

[William Drake]

Hi

Indeed, it has become clear that we are really going to need all the IP expertise we can muster in order to go toe to toe with what is shaping up to be a significant lobbying effort, so Kathy's knowledge of the recent IP meetings and beyond will be crucial.  While staff initially presented the LA meeting as being about facilitating NCPH engagement, and NCSG folks have accordingly approached this as a community/institution building activity, IPC and BC seem to be coming with a rather different mindset---this is really just the third in the series of extra-GNSO meetings for them to push their TMCH agenda, reopen agreed policies, etc.  NCSG is going to have to coordinate and strategize if we are to prevent this meeting from being turned into another step backward on IP, MS consensus processes, etc. and also salvage some space for us to pursue our own positive agenda on other fronts...

Happy holidays,

Bill



On Dec 23, 2012, at 13:46, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:

> Good news!  Kathy Kleiman is able to come to the LA intercessional meeting next month *and* ICANN has allocated one additional travel slot to NCSG for the mtg.  Presently, NCSG GNSO Councilor Joy Liddicoat was not planning to attend the LA intercessional meeting as she'll be on leave.  Only 5 of 8 NCSG-wide allocated travel slots are being used to send GNSO Councilors, so ICANN freeing up another travel slot for NCSG means NCSG can send someone in place of Joy's council travel allocation.  I propose that we send Kathy for this final NCSG-PC travel allocation.  There are proposals to discuss IP in LA, and the IPC is requesting to send more people so they can use the time to lobby the staff on their issues.  So I think its important we have IP law and policy expertise on the ground with us in LA.  Please let me know asap if anyone objects to this proposal to send Kathy in one of the NCSG-wide allocations for LA.
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