[icann-eu] Re: LA Resolution #2

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Slobodan and all,

  Thank you, and well done!  We completely agree here.

  I hope others from other constituencies will get on board with this
resolution.

Slobodan Markovic wrote:

> RESOLUTION #2
>
> ICANN-NCDNHC, November 13th, 2000
>
> Resolution on the UDRP
>
> 1. The party filing a UDRP complaint should not have the exclusive right
>    to determine which arbitration organization will hear the complaint.
>
> 2. The DNSO should create a working group that is tasked with
>    providing guidelines for the UDRP to make the process work better,
>    consistent with the public's right to use words in domain names.
>    The chair of the working group should be a representative of the
>    non-commercial constituency.
>
> 3. The expansion of the TLD name space, particularly for differentiated
>    TLD names, makes it important for UDRP panels not to assume that rights
>    in a SLD for one TLD provide automatic rights in all TLD strings.
>    Several UDRP panels have decided that a service mark, in any country,
>    automatically gives the owner of the service mark exclusive rights to
>    .com, .net and .org. This way of thinking should be remedied and not
>    expanded onto the new TLD name spaces. Also, some TLD strings, by their
>    very nature, will require special modifications of the UDRP approach,
>    if the UDRP is applied at all. In a restricted TLD only bona fide
>    entities within the targeted community, might bring complaints against
>    each other. The UDRP should not become a weapon against civil society.
>
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