Re: NCC position (Re: [wg-b] Final Report)

[Erick Iriarte <faia@amauta.rcp.net.pe>]

I'm agree with you Harald with this:

>(2) There does not appear to be any way that ICANN can create an useful 
>universally famous marks list at this point in time.

Erick Iriarte Ahon
Derecho.Org 

At 01:44 PM 16/05/2000 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>At 17:00 15.05.2000 -0400, Michael D. Palage wrote:
>>This position appears to coincide with the Non-Commercial Constituency that
>>has vehemently opposed the creation of such a list.
>
>I don't think this is quite correct.
>
>The NCC has vehemently opposed *inappropriate protection* for marks on such 
>a list, and has pointed out that criteria for creating such a list are very 
>hard to define, with ICANN being very far from an ideal organization to do 
>the defining.
>
>As a NCC member, and as a WG-B member, I have argued against ICANN creating 
>such a list, and argued against assigning special protection to names on a 
>list that we do not know the content of.
>
>Once a list is created *by someone else*, the list can be evaluated, so I 
>agree with the chair's report that "if and when a universally famous marks 
>list is created, it would be prudent for ICANN to consider whether the list 
>is applicable to the then-existing gTLD registration process.".
>
>My personal formulation of (2) would be:
>
>(2) There does not appear to be any way that ICANN can create an useful 
>universally famous marks list at this point in time.
>
>But I find the report "reasonably reasonable".
>
>                           Harald
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>Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
>Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
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