Olivier thank you *so much* for this excellent report, I was only able to join via the Adobe Connect room for a short while between other teleconferences but I was there during the time when the particular question you outline below came to the mike... Considering the amount of discussion this issue has generated I would like to ask you Olivier, and the List Members a couple of things... Firstly to Olivier may we (ALAC) 'copy' your report(s) from this list into a text section in the IRT WG Wiki space https://st.icann.org/gnso-liaison/index.cgi?at_large_irt_process_working_gro... (and indeed I would also welcome any other reports from people who may also have attended the London "show" or the earlier New York one as well as the next two planned for Hong Kong & Abu-Dhabi) And secondly questions to the At-Large List; 1. should we also record/ engage in further discussion/ debate on this specific topic of ICANN's scope (as it relates to the IRT report and new gTLD's in that wiki as well ? 2. Do you wish us to set up a 'Commons' associated with that Wiki Workspace to encourage and capture more discussion and debate from us all? I will raise this topic at the ALAC meeting on July 28th if you wish and propose that we ask for "feedback" from the Board on this matter, so *if* you do capture your thought points, of view and debate on this topic in such a Commons or Workspace, then we can use the that as a resource to direct their attention to... Just a thought let me know how you want us to proceed... CLO Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
One more point, which I wanted to write separately:
I've heard a lot of people say that Intellectual Property & the work of the IRT fell outside ICANN's scope.
Someone asked this specific question & Jonathan Cohen, Senior Partner at Shapiro Cohen replied that this was false: according to him, the ICANN bylaws & principles mention protection of Intellectual Property & Marks, and that therefore, the IRT's proposals fall completely *in line* with ICANN's *core mission*.
I'd be interested if this was confirmed/denied.
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