Hi all and Mary,

With apols for my brevity as I'm en route to Australia and pretty much
going offline for the next few weeks - Chris asked if I'd be happy for him
to post about this and I agreed as this is a public interest issue for me.

It would be great if people could post their views, one way or the other.
Fadi's most recent blog post indicates he's becoming aware of the issues
raised by a do it yourself policy process, and it can only help everyone to
articulate - publicly - what is right or wrong about it.

All the best, Maria

On 15 December 2012 04:58, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> In case you haven't seen this, ICANN ombudsman Chris LaHatte has just
> posted a notice of our Councilor Maria Farrell's complaint regarding the
> recent holding of closed (unrecorded) invitation-only meetings in Brussels
> and LA, convened by CEO Fadi Chehade, to discuss (ostensibly) the Trademark
> Clearinghouse (TMCH) implementation/technical details, but which also
> discussed recent requests by the IP & Business Constituencies to reopen
> certain issues that some considered agreed policy, others implementation:
> https://omblog.icann.org/?p=827
>
> As there was much interest and lively discussion on our list on this
> topic, I thought it might be useful for those who expressed views on the
> issue - especially those who agree that this type of meeting doesn't bode
> well for transparency, inclusiveness and equal multi-stakeholder
> participation - to weigh in by either emailing Chris or submitting comments
> on the blog.
>
> I leave it to our elected officials to decide if a formal statement from
> either/both Constituencies and/or the SG as a whole would be appropriate.
>
> Cheers
> Mary
>
> Mary W S Wong
> Professor of Law
> Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
> Chair, Graduate IP Programs
> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
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>
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