Just had a private email with a Board
member
Apparently the approach of this WG is to
put all the complainers (i.e. the trademark/IP people) into a position where
they have to come up with a solution that is both acceptable to them and to the
rest of the community. In other words it is not intended to be an open WG but
is deliberately intended to be slanted toward them with (they hope) the salutary
effect of forcing them to be constructive and commit themselves to accepting
whatever they propose.
Thus, while I agree that Konstantinos has
expertise in this area and that we should leverage it, I think the best way is
NOT to put him on the group (may not be able to get onto it anyway) but to
assign him to be our special monitor of the results of that group. He can
assess the results and tell us whether to scream against it or to accept it. And
draft our response. And if it is really bad, help us convince other stakeholder
groups to oppose it as well.
From: Non-Commercial
User Constituency [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009
6:35 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS]
Urgent: Nominations for IRT Participants
Dear all,
My Ph.D. Thesis and the book I am currently working on is on domain name
regulation and the balance between trademark and domain name protection. I am
not really certain how many would agree with my approach but the truth is that
I have been researching for a substantial number of years on this issue. From
the call it is not really straightforward how much workload is involved (I
guess it is quite a lot) but I would like to nominate myself and preferably
work with someone else on this?
Please do let me know if anyone else is interested or we can move towards
Bill’s suggestion and I can cooperate with an outreach committee, which I think
makes also good sense.
Thanks
Konstantinos
On 12/03/2009 09:11, "
William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
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Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
Lecturer in Law,
GigaNet Membership Chair,
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