Bret A. Fausett a �crit:
> In the press release (written by the PR firm, not ICANN) is this sentence:
>
> The Initial Board noted that a uniform dispute settlement
> mechanism was a necessary element of a competitive
> registrar system. The Initial Board noted that the
> scope of this policy should be wider than the cases
> of abusive registration with which the WIPO report
> deals, and ultimately cover all commercial dispute
> issues linked to Domain Name registrations.
>
> That last sentence is not in the Board's resolutions. What does it mean? Does it
>indeed represent a Board sentiment? Was that sentiment unanimous?
>
> Can someone who was in Berlin (or better yet, an ICANN Board member) shed some light
>on this?
My sense of it is that it means ICANN plans to eventually develop
policies that cover not only cases of cybersquatting but cases of
competing claims, so that what they are really pretending is to
become the source of legislation for a whole new branch of law - DNS
law - that will replace trademark and IP law in the sphere of the
Internet. ICANN is an ambitious organization.
