WIPO's Domain Dispute policy pushed forward, blasted at Berlin ICANN Conference!

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

All,

  FYI, See:
http://technews.netscape.com/computing/technews/newsitem/0,290,37201,00.html

Excerpts:

                 But those trying to form the most closely
                 watched group--which will represent regular
                 online users and noncommercial
                 interests--were sent back to the drawing board
                 by ICANN's interim board to come up with a
                 better proposal for the formation of their
                 constituency by June 21, sparking controversy
                 among observers.
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                 "I am very concerned about sending [the WIPO
                 proposal] to the DNSO constituencies when the
                 only one designed to represent the people with
                 the most to lose from this proposal is not
                 formed," said Michael Froomkin of the Miami
                 University School of Law.
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                 "The spirit of the actions taken in Berlin were
                 contrary to the sprit of the white paper--that
                 decisions be consensus based and bottom up.
                 This move on the WIPO paper was top down,"
                 said Brian O'Shaughnessy, spokesman for
                 Network Solutions.
Note:  Many of the participants seemed to share Brian's concern here
and have for quite awhile, yet it seems that the ICANN Interim Board
cant or won't seem to listen or get it's perverbial act together...

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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