Please use the <Edit Contents> menu option (directly above) to complete this form. Remember to <Save> the page (bottom right) after making updates. Other than the two required fields immediately below, you may complete any portion of this form, save, and return later to continue where you left off.
| Person Completing Form | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name: | David Tait | Email: | Date: | 18-Mar-2016 | |
| Status |
| BASIC |
Work Effort Section |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Name/Title of Work Effort: (Note: "Work Effort" might be a standing committee or a project with a life-cycle. Please keep this field relatively short and enter fuller description immediately below). | Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs (RPM) | ||||
| 2) Description: | The question of who legally has rights to, or is the legitimate holder of, a domain name can be open to dispute. In relation to domain name disputes concerning the registration and use of legally protected trademarks, the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is the longest standing alternative dispute resolution procedure. As a result of the New gTLD Program, several new rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) were developed to mitigate potential risks and costs to trademark rights holders that could arise in the expansion of the gTLD namespace: the Uniform Rapid Suspension Dispute Resolution Procedure (URS); the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) and the associated availability through the TMCH of Sunrise periods and the Trademark Claims notification service; and the Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedures (PDDRPs). Prior to the launch of the New gTLD Program, on 3 October 2011 ICANN staff had published a Final Issue Report on the current state of the UDRP. The recommended course of action in that UDRP Report was not to initiate a PDP at the time, but to hold off launching any such PDP until after the new URS had been in operation for at least eighteen (18) months. Subsequently, on 15 December 2011, the GNSO Council requested that ICANN staff prepare and publish a new Issue Report on the current state of all rights protection mechanisms implemented for both existing and new gTLDs, including but not limited to the UDRP and URS. The public comment period for the Preliminary Issue Report on a potential GNSO PDP to review all rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) in all gTLDs closed on 30 November 2015 and 22 submissions were made. Staff published the public comment summary on 2 December and completed the final Issue Report which was submitted to the GNSO Council for its consideration at its February meeting. The GNSO Council adopted the Working Group Charter at its meeting in March 2016. | ||||
| 3) Purpose/Goal of Work Effort: | To review all Rights Protection Mechanisms in relation to all gTLDs | ||||
4) Subject Matter Category: Click here to see a list of categories
| Policy Development | ||||
| 5) Subject Matter Sub-Category: (Note: Where applicable, identify the next lower level of Category, e.g., if Category is Policy Development, Sub-Category might be: Whois, IRTP, New gTLD, IDN) | New gTLD | ||||
| 6) Relative Importance: | High | ||||
| 7) Date Work Effort Commenced: |
| ||||
| 8) Sponsoring/Chartering Organization: | GNSO | ||||
| 9) ICANN Structures/Groups Involved: | AtLarge-All Other | ||||
| 10) Type of Group Performing Work Effort: | Working Group | ||||
| 10A) If Answer To Question 9 Is "Other", Please Specify Here: | http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/rpm | ||||
| 11) Web Presence Link (if applicable): | |||||
| ============================================== | |||||
12) Snapshot Activity Data: The effective period for each Snapshot will be the end of one ICANN meeting to the start of the next, e.g., ICANN53 (25 Jun 2015) - ICANN54 (18 Oct 2015)
| |||||
| Name | Date Satisfied/Confirmed | Notes |
|
SOAC Work Effort Template v3 (Aug 2016)
