A new proposal from the Intellectual Property Constituency to create new 
rights for Inter-Governmental Organizations (like the World Trade 
Organization) that do not exist in law.  

On a quick look, it appears that this proposal is (not surprisingly) 
broad enough to be used to prevent WTO protesters and the like from 
using the IGO's name or abbreviation in a domain name and thus tarnish 
the name of the IGO.

I guess ICANN doesn't have anything more important to do than create 
special rights for the WTO to squelch criticism these days.

Robin



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[council] IPC Proposed Revised IGO DRP
Date: 	Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:15:02 -0500
From: 	Rosette, Kristina <[log in to unmask]>
To: 	<[log in to unmask]>



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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