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

[Andrei Barburas <abarburas@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello Alain,

Thank you for sharing this. I managed earlier to read the document you sent.

Here are some initial remarks:

"*The High At-Risk Mark must be distinctive and must not match common words
(e.g. in dictionaries of 10,000 common words) used in the six UN languages
(English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French). (For example,  marks
like Apple or Gap may not be eligible)*"

What about Amazon.com? Amazon.com is actually "one word"; what if someone
wants to register amazon.newgtld? Would that be possible?

What about acronyms? We at IICD face the same problem; we are the
International Institute for Communication and Development. Unfortunately
there is another IICD in the US, who has a relatively bad reputation, but
they are the Institute for International Cooperation and Development.

What about other names that are short words for something else; INTEL is
the short word of Intelligence.

What about people names in general? I am pretty sure that there are several
Amy Winehouses and Michael Jacksons out there that probably do not want to
"destroy" the stars' image, but because of pure coincidence they are
restricted in using their name in this manner.

I think there are a lot of questions that need to be asked before HARM can
be something "smart" and deliver results to the copyright holders.



*Andrei Barburas*

Community Relations Services Officer



International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)

P.O. Box 11586, 2502 AN The Hague, The Netherlands


Mobile: +31 62 928 2879

Phone: +31 70 311 7311
Fax: +31 70 311 7322
Website: www.iicd.org



*People  ** **ICT   Development*



On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Alain Berranger
<alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>
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