I am sorry if you receive this twice.  The one I sent a while ago does not seem to have gone through to the list.

Attached is my statement on the new gTLDs, Recommendation 6:  Morality and Public Order.  If anyone would like to support any of these conclusions, please let me know or write in your own public comment.  Also feel free to circulate this to ALAC or whoever.  Thanks.



Cheryl B. Preston
Edwin M. Thomas
Professor of Law
J. Reuben Clark Law School
Brigham Young University
434 JRCB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-2312
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>>> Milton L Mueller <[log in to unmask]> 12/14/2008 10:37 am >>>
Konstantinos:

This statement is good, thanks for doing it. My suggestions:
(incorporated into the edited version attached):

1)       we need to make clear at the beginning that free expression has
not been adequately recognized as a rights claim. 

2)       I would like to put the Morality and Public Order section ahead
of the trademark section to reflect constituency priorities. But others
may not agree with that. 

3)       Would like to begin the discussion of incitement by noting the
dangers of content regulation. 

4)       I think you spend too much time on the CoE terrorism statement,
which advances a view that most of us don't agree with and which is not
applicable international law anyway. It would be better to make a more
general argument that incitement cannot be done via a gTLD string. 

 

Let me also point out that individual members can file their own
comments, and I would encourage you to do so, even if they agree
substantially with these, as it has more impact. 

Thanks, K! 

 

 

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From: Non-Commercial User Constituency
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Komaitis
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 8:20 AM
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Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC statement on new gTLDs
Importance: High

 

Dear all,

Please find attached the statement I have drafted on behalf of the NCUC
for ICANN's new gTLD proposal. According to ICANN the deadline for
comments is tomorrow -15/12/2008 -(can someone please confirm this?). If
this is the case can we request for an extension until at least the end
of the week?
Please make any changes/suggestions to the document so we don't loose
track of any comments. Considering the tight deadline can I please ask
you all to proceed and look at this document as soon as possible? 

Thank you all.

KK
-- 
Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
Lecturer in Law,
GigaNet Membership Chair,
University of Strathclyde,
The Lord Hope Building,
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Glasgow, G4 0LT,
UK
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