Mikki and all,
I see two problems with this group.
1.) Very few if any have any real life experience with arbitration procedure
with respect to DN situations.
2.) The group before being selected should have been open to anyone
that felt that they might contribute. This to my knowledge was not done.
Mikki Barry wrote:
> Andrew McLaughlin posted the following:
> ----
> Q: Who is on the drafting committee?
>
> A: The drafting committee consists of Louis Touton (ICANN counsel), Kathryn
> A. Kleiman (of the Association for Computing Machinery's Internet
> Governance Committee, a member of the DNSO Non-Commercial Domain Name
> Holders' Constituency, and co-founder of the Domain Name Rights Coalition),
> Steven J. Metalitz (General Counsel of the International Intellectual
> Property Alliance, a member of the DNSO Trademark, Intellectual Property,
> Anti-counterfeiting Interests Constituency), and Rita A. Rodin (of Skadden,
> Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, retained by America Online, a member of the
> DNSO Registrars Constituency). These individuals were selected because of
> their legal drafting abilities and because they represent a diversity of
> viewpoints that spans individual, non-commercial, business, intellectual
> property, and registrar concerns and interests.
> ----
>
> Hopefully that will clear up who is on the committee. Given this
> information, I would like to make clear that although I am certain
> that Kathy continues to embody DNRC ideals and our mission, she is
> not speaking for DNRC in this matter. There is no representative for
> individual interests on this committee.
>
> The principles Kathy is pressing to the committee include:
>
> 1. The Internet is the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this
> country and indeed the world has yet seen. Accordingly, protection of the
> openness and freedom of this speech must be the primary priority of Internet
> policy and protections.
> 2. No Internet policy should prevent individuals or businesses from using
> their full imagination and creativity to create and label products, services
> and content for the Internet.
> 3. Polices for the Internet must affirmatively and expressly set out
> protections for free speech and open communication as well as intellectual
> property protections.
> 4. Internet policies must protect and promote the development of new Internet
> products and services by entrepreneurs and small businesses.
>
> However, given the latest "turns in the law" governing domain names
> and trademarks, and the fact that there has never been any type of
> consensus in the Internet community for whether there should even BE
> a uniform dispute policy, this entire path is currently ill advised,
> especially since once again there is no representative for individual
> domain name holders' interests.
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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