RE: [gnso-igo-ingo] IGO-INGO - Final Report

["Teng, Joanne" <joanne.teng@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

We were dismayed to receive the below email message of November 4, 2013 
regarding Section 3.5 and the change made to indicate "Consensus Against" for 
General Recommendations 1 and 2.

Changing the level of support to "Consensus Against" at this very late stage is 
highly inappropriate.  It is also misleading, as it masks the clear positions 
in favor of top-level and second-level protections for acronyms expressed by 
the OECD, UPU and WIPO throughout this Working Group process.  With these three 
immediately concerned Working Group members indicating that they are in favor 
of top-level and second-level protection of exact match acronym identifiers, 
the level of support recorded for Recommendations 1 and 2 in Section 3.5 cannot 
in good faith be characterized as "Consensus Against".

Far more than any other constituency represented in the Working Group, it is 
IGOs themselves that are affected by any ICANN failure to grant the requisite 
preventive protection to their names and acronyms.  IGOs strongly oppose 
mis-characterization of the level of support for General Recommendations 1 and 
2 as "Consensus Against", particularly in light of the Working Group 
leadership's earlier statements of September 20, 2013 about the 
inappropriateness of changing the terminology of the consensus scale.

Each member of this Working Group is aware that there is no actual "Consensus 
Against".  Given their stake, the three IGO Working Group members have an 
entirely reasonable expectation that this lack of consensus be accurately 
reflected in the Final Report as "Divergence" as was originally done by the 
Chair.  A failure to do so would diminish the credibility of the Final Report 
on this issue (and indeed, the Working Group leadership itself has recently 
argued that "a last minute change to the consensus levels might let the process 
appear not having been reliable"), and the three IGOs will not fail to point 
this out to the GNSO Council, the ICANN Board and other stakeholders.

We look forward to hearing the Working Group leadership's response.

Best regards,

WIPO, OECD, UPU

Jo Teng and Berly Lelievre Acosta on behalf of the Working Group 
representatives from WIPO, OECD and UPU


From: owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Berry Cobb
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 6:39 AM
To: gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-igo-ingo] IGO-INGO - Final Report

WG Members,

Please find attached the latest version of the IGO-INGO Final Report.  Versions 
1.1 to 1.3 reflect changes as a result of moving the recommendations section to 
the top of the report.  I accepted those changes to reduce the amount of 
red-line.  V1.4 contains the red-line of the substantial changes.  It will be 
best for readers to read the report in the Final view, but please make sure to 
also review comments that are appended on the side of the report as they 
contain questions or comments that the WG should consider.  The following 
sections should be reviewed closely:

*         Recommendations now in sections 3.1 to 3.5

*         Section 3.5 now reflects "Consensus Against" for the no reservation 
protections of acronyms recommendations at the top and second level

*         Section 3.5 also includes a recommendation for the SCI of the GNSO 
Council to review the Consensus Scale per WGG

*         Unsupported proposals now reside in section 3.6, which also contains 
tables of proposals for each organization that did not receive support

*         Implementation considerations on incumbent gTLDs is section 3.7 and 
includes reference to an IRT

*         Annex 4 contains a completed template for requesting an Issue Report 
for a PDP

Please review the report in preparation for our review on Wednesday.  I will 
accept suggested edits until 23:59, 5 Nov for this round.  This will allow me 
time to collate all changes into the master.  When submitting any suggestions, 
please use the red-line track changes feature within v1.4 of the Word document. 
 If you are unable to submit changes, we will have a second round after our 
Wednesday meeting.

Note that we do have 1 hour meetings setup 7 & 8 November at 14:00 UTC for one 
hour should we need those times to discuss any issues with the Final Report.  
We have until 23:59, 10 Nov 2013 to submit the report to the GNSO Council.

I will send along an agenda on Tuesday.  Thank you.  B

Berry Cobb
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)
720.839.5735
mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
@berrycobb





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