Fwd: [council] Text in Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States

[Mawaki Chango]

Interesting...

--- Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au> wrote:

> Subject: [council] Text in Free Trade Agreement between
> Australia and the United States
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:16:17 +1000
> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
> To: "Council GNSO" <council at gnso.icann.org>
>
> Hello All,
>
> During the ICANN public forum in Marrakesh, there was mention
> of domain
> names in a free trade agreement between the USA and Chile.
> Search for
> "ERICK IRIARTE" in the transcript at:
>
http://www.icann.org/meetings/marrakech/captioning-forum1-28jun06.htm
>
> Vint Cerf asked for a reference.
>
> I asked Melbourne IT's General Counsel to check the
> Australian/USA Free
> trade agreement, and there is similar text.
>
> From Chapter 17 of the Australia-United States Free Trade
> Agreement on
> Intellectual Property Rights:
>
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us_fta/final-text/chapter_17.h
> tml
>
>
> "Article 17.3 : Domain Names On The Internet
>
> 1. In order to address trademark cyber-piracy, each Party
> shall require
> that the management of its country-code top-level domain
> (ccTLD) provide
> an appropriate procedure for the settlement of disputes, based
> on the
> principles established in the Uniform Domain-Name
> Dispute-Resolution
> Policy.
>
> 2. Each Party shall require that the management of its ccTLD
> provide
> online public access to a reliable and accurate database of
> contact
> information for domain-name registrants."
>
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
>
>