Robin,
Thanks for sharing the new Intellectual Property Constituency
proposal. It reminds me of a proposal a number of years ago by the World
Health Organization to "own" the names of major diseases and medicines online
in gTLDs. The proposal was ridiculous, and we blocked it
quickly.
How seriously do you think ICANN will take the IPC proposal?
Kathy
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