Hi folks, Happy Easter. I was going through my notes, and neglected to make a comment last week during our telephone call (I had written it down several weeks ago, on a different piece of paper!). With regards to arbitration, I find it doubtful that if an IGO had a dispute with a holder of a US trademark (i.e. whether that trademark had been granted properly, or conflicted with the IGO's alleged rights), that the IPC position would be that US trademark owners should be forced to give up *their* rights to due process via their national courts, and instead be compelled to go before a binding international arbitration. Given that the USPTO hasn't created any special process for IGOs to challenge the validity of a US registered trademark, we shouldn't be doing the same in the domain name space. Presumably the US government position would be the same as that of the UNIFEM matter -- i.e. availability of court action fulfills their Article 6ter treaty obligations. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/