[Ec-ncuc] NCUC letter to the GAC, RE UDRP

[Konstantinos Komaitis]

Thanks everybody for the input - the letter is now send in it's short version. Will keep you all posted.

KK

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On 28 Sep 2011, at 18:58, "Robin Gross" <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:

> Thanks, KK.  I'm really glad you are sending this letter!
> 
> Best,
> Robin
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> Please find attached the final version of the letter to be sent to the GAC. Hearing everyone, I think the short, not pissing people off version is the best approach. I am planning on sending this by the end of business day today.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> KK
>> 
>> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
>> 
>> Senior Lecturer,
>> Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses
>> Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law
>> University of Strathclyde,
>> The Law School,
>> Graham Hills building, 
>> 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA 
>> UK
>> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
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>> Website: www.komaitis.org
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy at seltzer.com] 
>> Sent: ?????, 27 ??????????? 2011 2:34 ??
>> To: Brenden Kuerbis
>> Cc: William Drake; Rafik Dammak; Robin Gross; Avri Doria; Milton L Mueller; Mary.Wong at LAW.UNH.EDU; Konstantinos Komaitis; EC-NCUC at ipjustice.org
>> Subject: Re: [Ec-ncuc] NCUC letter to the GAC, RE UDRP
>> 
>> +1
>> Attached makes that change and minor typo/grammar suggestions.
>> 
>> --Wendy
>> 
>> On 09/27/2011 09:21 AM, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:
>>> I like this revision, especially linking to the AoC.
>>> 
>>> On Sep 27, 2011 8:32 AM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 27, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am against the inclusion of the preferential treatment paragraph.  
>>>>> I
>>> think we should just make our points and demand they talk to use 
>>> without this, which seems to me to be weaken the argument.
>>>> 
>>>> What about this as a compromise.  Replace
>>>> 
>>>> However, NCUC is concerned that certain GNSO stakeholders were 
>>>> provided
>>> access to drafts of GAC Communiques and permitted to help shape the 
>>> views of the entire GAC, while other stakeholders, including NCUC, 
>>> were not afforded such preferential access and opportunity to directly 
>>> dialogue with the GAC on their views on the UDRP.  The preferential 
>>> treatment of certain stakeholders consulted in the process of drafting 
>>> the GAC Communique is troubling to noncommercial users and appears to 
>>> undermine ICANN's multi-stakeholder model of checks and balances and its ability to serve the
>>> public interest.   Given this, we would like to reiterate the main arguments
>>> made in our comments submitted[1] during the public comment period 
>>> concerning the UDRP for your consideration:
>>>> 
>>>> With this:
>>>> 
>>>> However, NCUC is concerned that certain GNSO stakeholders were 
>>>> provided
>>> special access to drafts of GAC Communiques and permitted to help 
>>> shape the views of the GAC, while other stakeholders, including NCUC, 
>>> were not.  This asymmetry in the process of drafting the GAC 
>>> Communique seems contrary to both the core tenets of ICANN's 
>>> multistakeholder model of checks and balances and its public interest 
>>> obligations under the Affirmation of Commitments.
>>>> 
>>>> In this context, we would like to reiterate the main arguments made 
>>>> in our
>>> comments submitted[1] during the public comment period concerning the UDRP:
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org +1 914-374-0613 Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
>> https://www.chillingeffects.org/
>> https://www.torproject.org/
>> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
>> <NCUC Letter to the GAC, re UDRP(final).pdf>
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