[gnso-rn-wg] RE: Draft Final Report

["Mike Rodenbaugh" <mxr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also would like to add a personal statement at the end of Table 4.1:

 

Mike Rodenbaugh makes the following statement:

 

It appears obvious that these names were reserved to avoid end-user
confusion if an entity other than the corresponding entity (ICANN, IANA,
etc.) were to register a domain such as icann.info, iana.biz,
afnic.travel, etc.  Such problem is far more severe in the case of
well-known brands (Yahoo!, Citibank, eBay, etc.) who receive
exponentially more traffic to their websites and collect personal and
financial information from users, making them far more frequent and
severe targets for cybersquatting, phishing and other illegal
activities.  

 

ICANN and related entities' brands should not receive any greater
protection than more well-known brands.  Rather, ICANN should determine
methods to better protect all users and brands from these problems,
taking into account the many years of experience that non-ICANN related
brands have suffered in this regard.

 

 

Mike Rodenbaugh

Sr. Legal Director

Yahoo! Inc.

 

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From: Gomes, Chuck [mailto:cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:03 AM
To: Reserved Names Working Group ICANN; Alistair Dixon; Avri Doria;
Caroline Greer; Dan Dougherty; Dan Halloran; Denise Michel; Dr.
Kung-Chung Liu; Edmon Chung; Glen de Saint Gery; Gregory S. Shatan;
Jonathon Nevett; Liz Williams; Lucila King; Marilyn Cade; Mawaki Chango;
Mike Palage; Mike Rodenbaugh; Minjung Park; Neal Blair; Patrick Jones;
Seth Jacoby; Sophia Bekele; Tamara Reznik; Tim Ruiz; Timothy Denton;
Tina Dam; Victoria McEvedy
Subject: FW: Draft Final Report
Importance: High

 

My apologies that you did not receive this last night.  Apparently the
RN-WG list was not set up to receive files this large (128 pages).  I
sent it out at 10 pm PDT last night and just found out that no one
received it.  Kent Crispin has now increased the file size allowed so
you will now probably all receive it twice because I also sent it to the
private distribution list I have for the group.

 

Chuck Gomes

 

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From: Gomes, Chuck 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:08 AM
To: 'Reserved Names Working Group ICANN'
Subject: Draft Final Report
Importance: High

I have attached a draft version of the RN-WG final report.  Please
familiarize yourself with it before our meeting if possible.  I suggest
that you pay close attention to the following as related to your
subgroup and/or area of interest:

*       Section 3 on pages 6-8: Roles of Reserved Names (copied from the
subgroup reports with a few minor, not substantive adjustments) 
*       Section 4 on pages 8-22: RN-WG Recommendations (copied verbatim
from the subgroup reports) 
*       Individual subgroup reports in the appendices as shown in Table
6.1 on page 23 
*       Section 7 on page 24, Other Conclusions from the Work, a new
section added by Tim Denton.

Note that a table of contents and an executive summary will be added
before sending the report on Friday.  Hopefully, a draft Executive
Summary will be available before our call.

 

The plan for our meeting is to spend the majority of our time reviewing
the report to make sure it has strong support from the full group. We
will spend a brief amount of time on each report but we will not have
time for lengthy debate of issues in those reports.

 

Chuck Gomes

 

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