[council] UDRP interim committee

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

UDRP Committee members:

FYI, the Noncommercial Constituency passed the following resolution, 
at its physical meeting in Melbourne, and later ratified through online 
vote, regarding the UDRP review:

Resolution #1
In any evaluation of the UDRP the NCC in Melbourne recommends the
study answer the following questions:

a. Do the panel members make overreaching decisions with respect to what is confusingly similar?

b. Do panel members make poor decisions on rights in generic names?

c. Do panel members err on the issue of whether or not criticism, parody or comparative advertising are "legitimate" interests in the use of product or company name in a domain name?

d. Do panel members misapply or miuse the definition of "bad faith"?

Resolution #2:
ICANN should ask an outside independent consulting group to evaluate
the UDRP.