RRDRP

[Robin Gross]

Thanks very much, Konstantinos.

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.

Thanks very much!
Robin

On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> 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.
> 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: http://www.icann.org/en/public- 
> comment/#rrdrp and the deadline is tomorrow.
>
> Best
>
> KK
>
> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
> Law Lecturer,
> University of Strathclyde,
> The Law School,
> The Lord Hope Building,
> 141 St. James Road,
> Glasgow, G4 0LT
> UK
> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
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> Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765
> Selected publications: http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm? 
> partid=501038
> Website: http://domainnamelaw.ning.com/
>
>




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