FW: [ga] Intellectual Property and the WHOIS

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanna Lane [mailto:jo-uk@rcn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:34 PM
> To: comments-whois@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [ga] Intellectual Property and the WHOIS
> 
> 
> When meaningful public involvement in the policy development 
> process is systematically ignored, it is hardly surprising that 
> policies develop that give a skewed view of public feedback and 
> damage the public interest. 
> 
> ICANN is in such a position today, even though it is 
> contractually obligated to weigh the public interest heavily in 
> its decisions, has been criticized for it's lack of proper 
> consideration to the user community, and has promised to improve 
> operations. It hasn't happened.  
> 
> Rather, those with extreme views on intellectual property issues 
> have been allowed to run away with themselves, to use Task Forces as 
> vehicles to promote self interests at the expense of core issues 
> of public interest. In this case, the core public interest issue 
> is Privacy, one which the Report does not even address.
> 
> The answer is to send this report back for more work, and this 
> time, convene a new Task Force made up entirely of those for whom 
> the public interest is their only interest. And to give that 
> group Terms of Reference that start and finish with Privacy. Then 
> the work as a whole would have value. 
> 
> As it is, it should be treated as one side of a two-sided coin, 
> and as such, not legal currency.   
> 
> Regards,
> Joanna Lane
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