Re: [ICANN-EU] The real challenge for all of us as candidates

["Andreas Fügner" <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com>]

Dearest Marc:

>There is nothing voluntary to being a respondent in a case. Sure you
>cannot respond, but that means immediate chorusses of "bad faith bad
>faith". Not responding means the allegations of the complainant are
>excepted as evidence without further investigation. And the so-called
>arbitration takes its course anyway. You call than voluntarily?


Of corse, not responding is NOT the appropiate reaction.
And this would be a rather childish behavier, sorry!
The proper reply is, that one does not participate in
and accept mediation or arbitration. 

>Give me ONE case where a victim succeeded in refusing to undergo UDRP.

Please, look up the list of cases at WIPO. You will find cases,
that were canceled or withdrawn. Are there many? No! Why?

Because_mediation/arbitration_is_better_then_directly_going_to_court.

Which, for weeks now, is my one and only argument.

OK?

Andreas Fuegner