Kathy and all, thank for your collaboration and I will do my best to share all important information with our local, national and sub regional members Baudouin 2009/6/26 Kathy Kleiman <[log in to unmask]> > Dear Baudouin, > Patrick of ALAC has graciously agreed to translate the Joint Statement, and > will try to do so on the flight home. > I'll circulate it when he shares them with us. > > All, thanks for the support, encouragement and complements. They mean a > lot!! > Kathy > > > > Dear Baudouin, > One of the drafters of the Joint Statement is French. Let me talk to him > and see if he will translate. > Tx for distributing! > Kathy > > Kathy, > > thanks to share this draft. It's very important and I wish if possible to > have a french version allowing me to share it among different plat form and > network in DR Congo and Central Africa by national and sub regional mailing > list. > I tried to do a substantial translation but I have fear to go > out understanding content. > congratulations for this work. > > Baudouin > > 2009/6/23 Kathy Kleiman <[log in to unmask]> > >> Hi All, >> For discussion purposes a little later in our meeting today, here is a >> DRAFT Joint Statement on the IRT Report between NCUC and ALAC. >> It would be very nice if, at the Board Public Forum on Thursday, we could >> go up together with ALAC to make a strong joint statement. >> That would make the Board wake up! :-) >> >> Best, >> Kathy >> (below in text and attached in Word) >> >> DRAFT >> >> Joint Statement on the DIRT Report >> >> From ALAC and NCUC >> >> >> >> >> >> The At-Large Community, ALAC and the Non-Commercial Users Constituency of >> ICANN strongly support the creation of new gTLDs. Having said that, the >> process to move forward with changes to the DAG Guidebook requires the >> legitimacy of full community participation and full transparency. >> >> In the case of the IRT Report, we had neither transparency nor openness. >> The IRT Report and its recommendations harm the interests of domain name >> Registrants and Internet end users, and consequently we must object to the >> vast bulk of its recommendations. >> >> >> To be more specific: >> >> 1. The Globally Protected Marks List – the GPML database- is a matter well >> beyond ICANN's scope and its core competence. It presumes to be able to >> resolve an issue that even WIPO wrestles with. Clearly the creation of the >> GPML, if even possible, would cause enormous complexity. Instead of speeding >> up the process of creating new gTLDs, it would introduce delays that would >> last for years. But the creation of this list must take place outside of >> ICANN. >> >> 2. The GPML takes no consideration of the actual limits of rights and >> protections allowed to trademarks. In the real world, trademark owners apply >> for a trademark in a specific class of goods and services, and their use is >> bound to that class or classes. By protecting a string of letters in all new >> gTLDs, the GPML would extend trademarks into new gTLDs far beyond the bounds >> of their class of goods and services, far beyond existing national laws and >> internationatreaties. >> >> >> 3. We have enormous problems with the Uniform Suspension Service (URS). >> The URS mechanism subverts conventional UDRP practice as it gives entirely >> insufficient time for notice to the registrant of the pending dispute. Thus, >> the registrant is unfairly limited in his/her right of response and the >> process is missing the fundamental principle of due process. >> >> >> [ Kathy Note: This paragraph below seems to be somewhat controversial >> within ALAC. I think we will be dropping it. Don't worry, we'll include the >> statement in our comments -- if you all agree] >> 4. ALAC and NCUC strongly object to the Thick Whois Registry. In mandating >> such, the IRT Committee did not address any of the privacy issues that arise >> from moving personal data from many countries with data protection laws, >> perhaps, to a single country without data protection. Does ICANN really want >> to be in a position in which it may be violating national laws? >> >> Overall, we wish the result were different. We wish the IRT had delivered >> a reasonable proposal for the protection of trademarks. But the product >> delivered is far outside the scope and core competence of ICANN, and outside >> the bounds of trademark law. >> >> We can do better; we must do better before we move forward. >> >> Consequently, NCUC and ALAC stand before this forum together in >> fundamental opposition to many of the IRT Results. >> >> >> >> >> >> Signed [for sharing a written cop y of a floor statement with the Board] >> >> >> >> ALAC >> NCUC >> >> >> >> __________________ >> __________________ >> >> __________________ >> __________________ >> >> >> >> > > > -- > SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN > COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC > COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE > MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE > téléphone fixe: +243 1510 34 91 > Téléphone mobile:+243998983491/+243999334571 > email:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > http://akimambo.unblog.fr > http://educticafrique.ning.com/ > > > > -- SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC COORDONNATEUR SOUS REGIONAL ACSIS/AFRIQUE CENTRALE MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE téléphone fixe: +243 1510 34 91 Téléphone mobile:+243998983491/+243999334571 email:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> http://akimambo.unblog.fr http://educticafrique.ning.com/