[Fwd: [council] IPC Proposed Revised IGO DRP]

[Robin Gross]

A new proposal from the Intellectual Property Constituency to create new
rights for Inter-Governmental Organizations (like the World Trade
Organization) that do not exist in law.

On a quick look, it appears that this proposal is (not surprisingly)
broad enough to be used to prevent WTO protesters and the like from
using the IGO's name or abbreviation in a domain name and thus tarnish
the name of the IGO.

I guess ICANN doesn't have anything more important to do than create
special rights for the WTO to squelch criticism these days.

Robin



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[council] IPC Proposed Revised IGO DRP
Date: 	Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:15:02 -0500
From: 	Rosette, Kristina <krosette at cov.com>
To: 	<council at gnso.icann.org>



All,

Attached please find the IPC Proposed Revised IGO DRP, which was
approved by the IPC at its meeting this morning.  Attached also for
reference is a redline against the IGO DRP that was contained in the 28
September 2007 staff report.

The IPC believes that its proposed revised IGO DRP remedies the aspects
of the original IGO DRP that were previously identified as being of
concern.

The IPC proposed revised IGO DRP does not address - and was not intended
to address - the process by which an IGO DRP would become applicable to
existing gTLDs.   Once (or if) it does become applicable to existing
gTLDs, the proposed changes reflect a mechanism that is believed to
treat existing gTLD registrants fairly.

Kristina



<<11282007 IPC Proposed Revised IGO DRP.DOC>> <<Redline IPC Proposed
Revised IGO DRP against Original.DOC>>

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