trademark lobby still dominating discussion at ICANN

[Milton L Mueller]

Seen some discussion of this in other forums. At best, it is a "put up or shut up" challenge to the IP interests: propose something specific and acceptable to you and live with it (for a change) as opposed to appearing to agree and then going outside ICANN "(e.g., to US government) to block it. 

At worst it gives them a privileged position to make the proposals.

Either way, after the group's recommendations come out we will have to comment and scream if they are bad. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC-
> DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of William Drake
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:38 AM
> To: NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] trademark lobby still dominating discussion at
> ICANN
> 
> Robin,
> 
> There were dire expressions of concern by the IPC during the GNSO-GAC
> meeting (and some interesting parallels with governments' views on
> geographic---or conceivably related to geographic---names) but
> otherwise I don't recall any such discussion.  I presume this is a
> board response to some back channel discussions.  Obviously it'd make
> sense to ask for a seat at the table and transparency/reporting in its
> operations.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Robin Gross wrote:
> >
> > Has there been any discussion of this IRT on the GNSO Counsel?   How
> > do we make sure that balanced perspectives make their way onto the
> > new "ITR Team"?
> >