ICANN gTLD implementation consultations

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Members of ISOC-NY attended ICANN's gTLD Implementation Consultation session at
the Millennium Hotel in NYC last Monday July 13. It was an interesting session.
ICANN's Implementation Recommendation Team presented their report on how disputes over
trademarks in the new domains be handled. There were also presentations on new developments in DNS security,
and scaling the root server system. Attendee's comments and questions, both oral and written, were solicited.

It was our sense, particularly on the trademark issues,
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/presentation-irt-13jul09-en.pdf
despite the best efforts of Kathy Kleiman of the NCUC, and others, that the voice of regular
internet users / site registrants, was somewhat under-represented compared to that of corporate interests.

Video will be forthcoming on the ISOC-NY website http://isoc-ny.org

Please note that another session will begin a few hours in London (15 July) and remote participation
is available via https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a819976787/outreach

Agenda: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/london-agenda-speakers-15jul09-en.pdf

Further sessions are to be Hong Kong (24 July) and Abu-Dhabi (4 August).


More info: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm


Joly MacFie
212 608 1334
http://isoc-ny.org