May 23, 1999 Another WIPO Panel of Experts member has added his name to the petition asking ICANN to defer adopting any WIPO Final Report recommendations. A. Michael Froomkin, whose legal critique of the WIPO Interim Report led to major revisions in the Final Report, has joined 75 other scholars, technologists, service providers, and users in asking ICANN to give the Internet community more time to study the proposals. The group wants to allow the Domain Name Supporting Organization and an elected ICANN Board to participate in the decision making process. The ICANN Board will meet in secret May 27 to decide what to do with the WIPO report. The full petition can be viewed at http://www.domainhandbook.com/petition-0599.html
