To get some discussion going, here's some feedback received
from David Maher in the RyC, sent with David's permission.
"This
proposal still has the fundamental flaw that it requires mandatory ARBITRATION.
It is an attempt to make ICANN a global legislative body outside the
jurisdiction of national courts. The existing UDRP provides for a mandatory
ADMINISTRATIVE proceeding and has the following escape clause
(4(k)):
- Availability of Court Proceedings. The mandatory administrative
proceeding requirements set forth in Paragraph
4 shall not prevent either you or the complainant from submitting the
dispute to a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before
such mandatory administrative proceeding is commenced or after such proceeding
is concluded.
If ICANN can do this, it can make law on any
other subject. I don't think we, as registries, want to subject ourselves to
mandatory arbitration (except as provided in contracts we have signed) on any
subject that the GNSO comes up with."
Chuck Gomes
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All,
Attached please find the IPC Proposed Revised IGO
DRP, which was approved by the IPC at its meeting this morning. Attached
also for reference is a redline against the IGO DRP that was contained in the
28 September 2007 staff report.
The IPC believes that its proposed revised IGO DRP
remedies the aspects of the original IGO DRP that were previously identified
as being of concern.
The IPC proposed revised IGO DRP does not address -
and was not intended to address - the process by which an IGO DRP would become
applicable to existing gTLDs. Once (or if) it does become
applicable to existing gTLDs, the proposed changes reflect a mechanism that is
believed to treat existing gTLD registrants fairly.
Kristina
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