[gtld-council] Small group work update: Recommendation 6 & Recommendation 20

[Liz Williams <liz.williams@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues

I thought it would be helpful to give you an update on yesterday's  
small group meetings on Recommendations 6 & 20.
It seems that the group has reached agreement on Recommendation 6.   
The examples set out in the second paragraph are intended to be  
illustrative and may be used by the implementation team to provide  
guidance to applicants and instructions to evaluators so that, in the  
event of an objection, any independent panel would have a series of  
tests against which to analyse an objection.
"Recommendation 6:

Strings must not be contrary to generally accepted and  
internationally recognized principles of law.
Examples of such principles of law include, but are not limited to,  
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Paris Convention on  
the Protection of Industrial Property, the Agreement on Trade-Related  
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the Berne Convention  
on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the International  
Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention on  
the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)  
and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of  
Racial Discrimination."

With respect to Recommendation 20, the following text has been sent  
to the small group as a result of detailed discussions on the call  
yesterday afternoon.  We are waiting for further clarification, if  
any, from the NCUC.  We would expect that this text would be  
finalised shortly.
"Recommendation 20

An application that is targeted to a specific community may be
rejected if it is determined that there is substantial opposition to  
it from significant
established institutions within the targeted community."

There have been a number of helpful suggestions about definitions for  
"substantial", "significant" and "established" which will be picked  
up by the Implementation Team in developing the methods by which this  
recommendation would be used in the application evaluation and  
objection processes.
At the next Committee call on Friday 12 July, a member of the  
Recommendation 6 group will give an update to the Committee and Chuck  
Gomes will provide the update from the Recommendation 20 group.
Of course, any questions or clarifications, please just ask.

Speak to you all on Friday and thanks again for the great work.

Liz
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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels
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+32 2 234 7848 fax
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