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[npoc-voice] Defensive registration paper - Call for NPOC comments

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  • Subject: [npoc-voice] Defensive registration paper - Call for NPOC comments
  • From: Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:27:49 -0400

Dear NPOC Colleagues,

MelbourneIT - http://www.melbourneit.com.au/ - is asking NPOC members for
comments:

*"Looking at the new gTLDs that have been applied for, many of them are
still associated with a business model of registering lots of second level
domain names with registration rules similar to .com.

While we think the framework of protections for new gTLDs is a significant
improvement over the current system for most trademarks, we also recognize
that it is not sufficient for well-known names like Red Cross, UNESCO etc.

Melbourne IT believes that protections need to be strengthened to minimize
the need for defensive registrations for names that are subject to frequent
misuse online.

Attached is Melbourne IT's paper on minimizing the need for defensive
registrations.   We would welcome any feedback that you may have.

We have attempted to use the existing framework of protections - trademark
clearinghouse, sunrise, trademark claims, URS, and WHOIS data - and added
some more requirements for names that are at high risk of online abuse.

We would like to have a meaningful discussion with other like-minded
members of the community to attempt to reach a consensus document that most
ICANN stakeholders could live with.

We are approaching the various stakeholders in the ICANN multi-stakeholder
community to try to get a critical mass of support to move this issue
forward.  We are adopting a similar approach as for the IRT team - that
came up with the trademark clearinghouse and URS.

We hope to get the NPOC's  support in this initiative.

We are planning to hold a workshop on Washington, DC on Tuesday 18
September in preparation for the Toronto ICANN meeting in October.  I would
love to have an NPOC representative attend if you are available.  We are
planning to invite key participants in the policy process from the GNSO,
ALAC and GAC.

Please feel free to share the document with members of NPOC- it is a public
document.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin, Chief Strategy Officer, MelbourneIT"
*

Would you be kind enough to share on npoc-voice your comments on the paper
and the process proposed by MelbourneIT.

Please be kine enough to have your comments in by September 14th. Thanks.

I have asked Lori Schulman, NPOC's Vice-Chair to represent NPOC at the
MelbourneIT workshop in DC on September 18th.

Best,

Alain Berranger

-- 
Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
Member, Board of Directors, CECI,
http://www.ceci.ca<http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/>
Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
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Attachment: Minimizing HARM Aug 2012.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document



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