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Thanks very much, Konstantinos.<div><br></div><div>I am also troubled by the amount of arbitrary decisions the RRDRP will create as proposed. I was opposed to the entire notion of "community" objections when the new gTLD policy was being developed by the GNSO, and this is much of the reason. ICANN is creating an unaccountable system to decide what and who a "community" is to veto and/or get preference in the DNS. Many of the objections cited in this statement are somewhat related to this concern, although we should point it out more explicitly in my view. I remain unconvinced that there can even be such a thing as a measurable "community" deserving of special rights and it just invites game-playing and manipulation to pretend there is.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much!</div><div>Robin</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I would like to draw your attention to the Registry Restrictions Dispute Resolution Procedure, which, I believe, seeks to enforce an approach that will have a huge impact upon non-commercial use of community-based domain names. This is of great concern to us and the way ICANN is seeking to encourage Registries to ‘police’ domain name registrations and become content controllers. ICANN, yet again, fails to understand the inherent interests within communities and seeks to create a system that is dangerous and, surprise, surprise, is tilted towards the complaining party.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I would therefore encourage you all to submit if possible comments. Apologies for the delay in notifying you but there are so many issues running at the same time that I sort of missed it. The documents are available here:</span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#rrdrp" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#rrdrp</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the deadline is tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Best<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">KK</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Law Lecturer,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">University of Strathclyde,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; 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margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Selected publications: <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038">http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Website: <a href="http://domainnamelaw.ning.com">http://domainnamelaw.ning.com</a>/</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>