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

[Robin Gross]

Does the NCUC letter live on the web anywhere, so I can link to it and tweet about it?

Thanks,
Robin


On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:

> Thanks everybody for the input - the letter is now send in it's short version. Will keep you all posted.
> 
> KK
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> 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
>>> http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765
>>> Selected publications: http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038
>>> 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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