[council] ICANN Board follow up to the WIPO letter to ICANN of 21 Feb 2003

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>]

Hello All,

At its meeting on 17 April 2003 the GNSO Council resolved:
(http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20030417.GNSOteleconf-minutes.html)
"That Council responds back to the Board with the following advice:
To consider the WIPO recommendations separately from the review of the
existing Universal Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) which is aimed at
trademarks.
That the WIPO recommendations associated with Names and Acronymns of
International Intergovernmental Organisations and Country Names should
be subject to a policy development process to look at how they can be
implemented taking into account a thorough examination of the issues
surrounding the recommendations."


In response, at its meeting on 2 June 2003, the ICANN Board resolved:
(http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-02jun03.htm)
"Resolved [03.83] that the President is directed to form, in
consultation with the chairs of the GNSO Council, the ALAC, and the GAC,
a working group including participants in the GNSO, the ALAC, and the
GAC as well as Board members, for the purpose of analyzing the practical
and technical aspects of implementing the WIPO recommendations, and
notably the implications for the UDRP; and

Further resolved [03.84] that the President and General Counsel are
directed to investigate and analyze legal aspects of the relationship
between ICANN's mission and the recommendations conveyed by the 12
February 2003 letter from WIPO, and to report to the Board and to the
working group formed under resolution 03.83 on the result of that
investigation and analysis. Among topics to be considered should be
whether implementation of the WIPO recommendations would require ICANN
to prescribe adherence to normative rules, not based on established
laws, for the resolution of competing third-party claims to rights to
register names."

I await the President's call :-)

Regards,
Bruce