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So, while you may vociferously object to it, you may want to consider that what is considered ham-handed Staff intervention by some might be considered by others that finally someone -- even occasionally and partially -- is asserting the interests of non-domain-owning end-users.
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As Alan Greenberg noted in his analysis of the staff action on the TMCH Strawman proposals.
Although the outcomes were not exactly as the ALAC advised (in terms of what required policy development), all of the IP protections that ICANN will be moving ahead with were supported by the ALAC, and the one additional protection that the ALAC explicitly did not support will not be implemented.