Comments of Intellectual Property Constituency
The Intellectual Property Constituency welcomes this chance to comment on the constituency petition and charter for the proposed IDN gTLD constituency. IPC supports the views expressed by the Business and ISP constituencies, see http://forum.icann.org/lists/idngtld-petition/msg00019.html, but we wish to spell out our concerns in more detail. IPC believes that the issues that this constituency is being formed to address are important ones to which ICANN should devote more attention. However, we have questions whether the formation of a new constituency within the GNSO is the best means to advance the stated goals of the petitioners and to provide enhanced focus to these issues within ICANN. In great part, this is because the role of a GNSO constituency, which is quite clearly delineated and easily understood under the current structure, has become almost completely incoherent under the "GNSO Improvements" adopted by the ICANN board. Finally, recognizing that the petitioners are better situated than we are to decide whether their goals are best served by forming a new constituency, we do not oppose its recognition, but strongly oppose locating this constituency within the Commercial Stakeholder Group. We also note some other problematic aspects to the draft charter. For details, please see the attached submission. Steve Metalitz, IPC president <<2243870.pdf>> Attachment:
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