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Dear Baudouin,<br>
One of the drafters of the Joint Statement is French. Let me talk to
him and see if he will translate.<br>
Tx for distributing!<br>
Kathy<br>
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<div>Kathy,</div>
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<div>thanks to share this draft. It's very important and I wish if
possible to have a french version allowing me to share it among
different plat form and network in DR Congo and Central Africa by
national and sub regional mailing list. </div>
<div>I tried to do a substantial translation but I have fear to go
out understanding content.</div>
<div>congratulations for this work.</div>
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<div>Baudouin<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/23 Kathy Kleiman <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Hi All,<br>
For discussion purposes a little later in our meeting today, here is a
DRAFT Joint Statement on the IRT Report between NCUC and ALAC.<br>
It would be very nice if, at the Board Public Forum on Thursday, we
could go up together with ALAC to make a strong joint statement.<br>
That would make the Board wake up! :-)<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Kathy<br>
(below in text and attached in Word)<br>
<br>
<p
style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
align="center"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">DRAFT</span></p>
<p
style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
align="center"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">Joint Statement
on the DIRT Report</span></p>
<p
style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
align="center"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">From ALAC and
NCUC </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">The At-Large
Community, ALAC and the Non-Commercial Users Constituency of ICANN
strongly support the creation of new gTLDs. Having said that, the
process to move forward with changes to the DAG Guidebook requires the
legitimacy of full community participation and full transparency.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">In the case of
the IRT Report, we had neither transparency nor openness. The IRT
Report and its recommendations harm the interests of domain name
Registrants and Internet end users, and consequently we must object to
the vast bulk of its recommendations.<br>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">To be more
specific: </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">1. The Globally
Protected Marks List – the GPML database- is a matter well beyond
ICANN's scope and its core competence. It presumes to be able to
resolve an issue that even WIPO wrestles with. Clearly the creation of
the GPML, if even possible, would cause enormous complexity. Instead of
speeding up the process of creating new gTLDs, it would introduce
delays that would last for years. But the creation of this list must
take place outside of ICANN.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">2. The GPML takes
no consideration of the actual limits of rights and protections allowed
to trademarks. In the real world, trademark owners apply for a
trademark in a specific class of goods and services, and their use is
bound to that class or classes. By protecting a string of letters in
all new gTLDs, the GPML would extend trademarks into new gTLDs far
beyond the bounds of their class of goods and services, far beyond
existing national laws and internationatreaties. <span> </span><br>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">3. We have
enormous problems with the Uniform Suspension Service (URS). The URS
mechanism subverts conventional UDRP practice as it gives entirely
insufficient time for notice to the registrant of the pending dispute.
Thus, the registrant is unfairly limited in his/her right of response
and the process is missing the fundamental principle of due process.<br>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">[ Kathy Note:
This paragraph below seems to be somewhat controversial within ALAC. I
think we will be dropping it. Don't worry, we'll include the statement
in our comments -- if you all agree]<br>
4. ALAC and NCUC strongly object to the Thick Whois Registry. In
mandating such, the IRT Committee did not address any of the privacy
issues that arise from moving personal data from many countries with
data protection laws, perhaps, to a single country without data
protection. Does ICANN really want to be in a position in which it may
be violating national laws?</span></p>
<span
style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">Overall, we wish
the result were different. We wish the IRT had delivered a reasonable
proposal for the protection of trademarks. But the product delivered is
far outside the scope and core competence of ICANN, and outside the
bounds of trademark law.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">We can do better;
we must do better before we move forward.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">Consequently,
NCUC and ALAC stand before this forum together in fundamental
opposition to many of the IRT Results.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;">Signed [for
sharing a written cop y of a floor statement with the Board]</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p>ALAC<span>
</span>NCUC</p>
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<p>__________________<span>
</span>__________________</p>
<p>__________________<span>
</span>__________________</p>
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