[gnso-pro-wg] Fwd: [council] Revised Statement of work for working group on protecting the legal rights of others

[Liz Williams <liz.williams@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have just talked about this input -- here it is for those who  
haven't seen it on the PRO list and apologies for those on the  
Council who will see it twice.

Liz
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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue 20 Feb 2007 16:36:13 GMT+01:00
> To: Council GNSO <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [council] Revised Statement of work for working group  
> on protecting the legal rights of others
>
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately I missed the meeting where this was finalized.  but  
> since it seems that the wording is not fully understood, I have a  
> few concerns/questions and some recommendations.
>
> On 19 feb 2007, at 21.01, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
>
> A.
>
> > As part of the new gTLD committee's deliberations, there has been  
> > some
> > discussion about what additional protections beyond the current  
> > terms in
> > the registration agreement and existing dispute resolution mechanisms
> > should be in place to the protect the legal rights of others  
> > during the
> > domain name registration process, particularly during the initial  
> > start
> > up of a new gTLD where there is contention for what Registrants  
> > perceive
> > as the "best" names.
>
>
>
> When we spoke about this topic, I though the topic was to review  
> such considerations in general and not to focus on what additional  
> protections beyond those currently in practice would be needed.  I  
> would therefore recommend removing  'additional'  and [beyond the  
> current terms in the registration agreement and existing dispute  
> resolution mechanisms].
>
> It could therefore read:
>
> As part of the new gTLD committee's deliberations, there has been some
> discussion about what protections
> should be in place to the protect the legal rights of others during  
> the
> domain name registration process, particularly during the initial  
> start
> up of a new gTLD where there is contention for what Registrants  
> perceive
> as the "best" names.
>
> B.
>
> First a typo
>
> > H.	Impact on other affect parties
>
> should be affected parties
>
> And as this one is rather unspecific, I would suggest adding  
> something like:
>
> including potential registrants from the general public.  I.e. it  
> would read:
>
> H. Impact on other affect parties including potential registrants  
> from the general public.
>
> C.
>
>
> Another question I have is what is the relation between this group  
> and the IDN considerations group.  The use of IDNs and both  
> translations and transliterations of marks is a complexity that  
> does not seem to be covered in this charter.  I am not sure that it  
> is covered in the IDN charter either.
>
> d.  Finally to what extent is the enlarging scope of trademark  
> rules that comes into play once IDNs are included taken into  
> account by this or the IDN charter?
>
> thanks
> a.