FYI: Begin forwarded message: > From: "Neuman, Jeff" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: October 4, 2012 7:40:53 AM PDT > To: Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]>, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: FW: Alternate Model Trademark Clearinghouse Call on > October 9th, 9 am Eastern US Time > > Robin and Avri, > > I was hoping there would be a more formal ICANN Announcement on > this call, but it has not yet been sent out. Can you send this out > to your membership to make sure they are aware of the call? > > Thanks. > > Jeffrey J. Neuman > Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs > > > From: Neuman, Jeff > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:41 PM > To: At-Large Worldwide > Cc: 'Chris Wright'; [log in to unmask]; 'Jeff Eckhaus > ([log in to unmask])' > Subject: Alternate Model Trademark Clearinghouse Call on October > 9th, 9 am Eastern US Time > > All, > > As most of you are aware, ICANN posted its proposed implementation > model of the TMCH earlier this year, with the most recent drafts > posted on September 24, 2012 (http://www.icann.org/en/news/ > announcements/announcement-7-24sep12-en.htm). For a number of > months, several registries and registrars have been working on an > alternate mechanism for implementing the Trademark Clearinghouse at > least with respect to how the Clearinghouse interacts with the gTLD > Registries and Registrars. A paper discussing the issues > presented by the proposed ICANN implementation model along with our > proposed alternate Sunrise and Trademark Claims models has now been > posted by ICANN at: > > http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/sunrise- > model-26sep12-en.pdf > http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/claims- > model-26sep12-en.pdf > http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/model- > issues-26sep12-en.pdf > > ICANN has graciously volunteered its resources to host a call on > October 9th at 9am Eastern US time for the authors of the alternate > models to discuss our models and rationale. We wanted to make sure > that you all were aware of the call as well. This call will be > good preparation for the meeting in a couple of weeks in Toronto. > > I hope that ICANN will send out a more formal announcement about > the call. But just in case they do not, here is the call-in > information that ICANN has given me. > > Conference ID: 93759 > Dial-in numbers for each country: http://www.adigo.com/icann/ > > Adobe Connect Room at: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/tmch/ > > If you have any questions, please let us know. I have included the > other authors on this email chain as well. > > Best regards, > > Jeffrey J. Neuman > Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs > 46000 Center Oak Plaza, Sterling, VA 20166 > Office: +1.571.434.5772 Mobile: +1.202.549.5079 Fax: > +1.703.738.7965 / [log in to unmask] / www.neustar.biz > IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]