[IDNO:322] Re: WIPO Draft

Joop Teernstra (terastra@terabytz.co.nz)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:23:21 +1200


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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