[alac] Fwd: [wipo2ag] WIPO 2 Resolution

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the board's resolution to consider the WIPO2 AG's report for Cape Town.

--Wendy

> WIPO II President's Working Group Recommendation
>
> Whereas, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) sent ICANN a
> letter dated 21 February 2003 providing information about two decisions that
> WIPO member states requested be transmitted to ICANN: (1) concerning the
> names and acronyms of international intergovernmental organizations, and (2)
> concerning the names of countries.
>
> Whereas, in response to an invitation from the Board, advice and comments
> were received from the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the GNSO Council,
> the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), and the Intellectual Property
> Interests and the Commercial and Business Users Constituencies of the GNSO.
>
> Whereas, Board Resolution 03.83 directed the President to form a working
> group including participants in the GNSO, the ALAC, and the GAC as well as
> Board members, for the purpose of analyzing the practical and technical
> aspects of implementing the WIPO recommendations, and notably the
> implications for the UDRP.
>
> Whereas, it was further resolved in Board Resolution 03.84 that the
> President and General Counsel were directed to investigate and analyze legal
> aspects of the relationship between ICANN's mission and the recommendations
> conveyed by the 21 February 2003 letter from WIPO, and to report to the
> Board and to the working group formed under Resolution 03.83 on the result
> of that investigation and analysis.
>
> Resolved [04.60], the Board thanks Chair Jonathan Cohen and the members of
> the WIPO II President's Working Group for the preparation of this report.
>
> Resolved [04.61], that the President and staff should proceed to investigate
> and analyze the Working Group's Report and the General Counsel's advice on
> the legal aspects of the relationship between ICANN's mission and the 21
> February 2003 WIPO letter.
>
> Resolved [04.62], that following the investigation and analysis, President
> and Staff should produce a recommendation to the Board before the Cape Town
> Meeting, so that the Board may make its decision on the WIPO II
> recommendations during that meeting.


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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx || wendy@xxxxxxx
Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html