My apologies for not able to attend the call. I tried to stay up for it but was really tired out after my flight to Taiwan for TWNIC annual meeting. I support the principle that "Brand owners want to be able to have clear right-of-first-refusal to reduce opportunities for cyber-squatting and to reduce the need for URS and UDRP proceedings." and I agree that it is in the interest of the at-large users. The devils is in the detail however. I am concern about over reaching their rights, by extension into combination of their trademark with generic words. I can also understand multi-national trademarks, that I would assumed would cover most famous mark. However, I am not sure how national TM is going to apply. Do you mean as a TM owner in China, I have rights of refusal for a TLD (say .sydney) that primary market is in Australia? -James Seng On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:
During today's teleconference on New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook V3, we discussed the timing regarding the vote on supporting the report (see http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/name-issues_atlarge-lists.icann.org...) and At-Large minority position statements (see http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/name-issues_atlarge-lists.icann.org...).
With the agreement of all on the teleconference, Cheryl agreed to shorten the voting period from our normal "short" poll of 5 days to 3 days. This will allow additional time for discussion, and based on recent voting history, should not adversely impact the number of ALAC members voting.
According, to allow the vote to complete in time for the GNSO meeting on Thursday morning, the vote will begin Monday morning, 14 Dec 2009 (the exact time to be determined).
This will allow the discussion on the report and minority positions to be extended until approximately 18:00 UTC on Sunday.
If you have any interest at all in the issues, please do look at the documents and send your questions or comments. Olivier and I will do our best to address them. And please do remember that the question asked by the Board was not whether to implement a Clearinghouse and URS, but rather how to best do it.
Alan
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