I'm glad to hear a committee is in our future. I read the draft, and Froomkin's critique, but that was back when
I thought it was an interesting exercise in Con Law.
A few days latter my own personal IP crisis erupted!
>Dennis
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> At 04:37 13/06/1999 -0700, d3nnis wrote:
> >Joop, Karl, Kevin, Jeff, Sri (to name just a few) ....
> >
> >I'm very interested in discussing how IDNO will formulate its position on
> the WIPO draft.
> >
> I think we all are. This will be one of the most challenging tasks ahead of
> us. Mind you, the WIPO draft is a 140 page dense legal document of which
> most people have only come to sniff the odors.
> Although there were plenty of hands that went up in Berlin when Dan
> Steinberg asked who has actually read it (I read more than most, under the
> guiding hand of Peter Dengate Thrush, who is one of the few who really
> grasps the full extent of the Dispute policy proposed) I suspect that most
> of those were the of the TM lobby who simple want ICANN to endorse it, in
> toto, pronto.
>
> >For example, will there be a committee, and if so, will it submit a report
> to the full membership prior
> >to Santiago?
> We should form a committee on it, no doubt, but we have to settle a few
> more basic things about our constituency first.
> Membership, membership fees, procedures.
> Then we can steam ahead with our position on the WIPO draft.
>
> It is for this very reason, that any haste adopted in the DNSO would be
> indecent, as the DNSO itself has not yet been constituted.
> But you read what the observers at the latest phone conf had to say..
>
> Better yet, is the Board's endorsement a dead issue, or is this something
> that we
> >should consider protesting in IDNO's capacity as the representative of the
> largest number of domain
> >name owners?
> >
> The Board's endorsement is only partial. The most contentious parts have
> been sent to the DNSO.
>
> >Also, is there any agreement as yet as to how the DNSO will tackle this
> >subject?
> >
> LOL! There is no agreement yet as to who is going to be represented in the
> DNSO.
>
> >I found Sri's domain name problem description to be very interesting. I
> haven't had the opportunity to compare my NSI tiff with his, but I have a
> feeling we could find a lot of interesting themes were we to swap notes.
> >
> The domain-policy@lists.internic.net used to be a good repository for
> complaints against NSI's policies.
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
> the Cyberspace Association,
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.idno.org
>
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