[ga-full] Re: [IFWP] Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgements

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

Joe and all,

  Thanks Joe. And you too Jamie  Good info here.  It seems that some
correction of ICANN's ways is getting underway in a much broader scale.
It is long past due.  That is if I am reading this stuff right.  I will pass
it along
as well to our members.

  Jamie or Michael, what are the issues on privacy and censorship
that are being considered here?  Any idea?  Our members seem to
have a strong concern with respect to ICANN purposeful disenfranchisement
and lack of respect for privacy that needs to be addressed.  This has
especially
come to light in recent weeks with respect to DNS and Domain related
commerce and registration issues i.e. Register.con and bulkregister.com
in particular.  The DNSO seems to be acting in a particularly alarming
practice of disenfranchisement and poor awareness of privacy issues.
I would be very interested in hearing either of your thought on this,
publicly
or privately.  I personally am seeing a non-compliance by the DNSO/ICANN
with respect to the Privacy act presently.  If you need some background
from me, please don't hesitate to ask.

!Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:

> from Love ..
>
> ---
> The Hague Conference on Private International Law has issued a
> preliminary draft for a "Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign
> Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters."
>   This contains controversial elements regarding electronic commerce.
> There will be a meeting of ecommerce experts in Ottawa on February 27
> thorugh March 1 to discuss the ecommerce issues.  Consumer groups will
> be meeting with US officials about this meeting next week, on February
> 22.
>
> Here are some ULRs for information regarding the proposed convention:
>
> http://www.hcch.net/e/events/press01e.html
> http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~billard/ipilec/
> http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/whats_new.html
> http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/991030_forjudg.html
>
> One contact person in the government is Michael Donohue at the FTC.  His
> email address is mdonohue@ftc.gov.
>
> >From the first press release, here is item 5:
>
>    5.For business-to-consumer transactions, further assessment is
> required in the light of all the interests involved. Particularly,
> during the second plenary, Professor Catherine Kessedjian proposed to
> avoid the traditional dichotomy between the "country of origin" (i.e.
> that of the seller or provider) and the "country of reception" (i.e.
> that of the consumer). She proposed to start with a process of
> site-certification along the lines of the work done within the icc and
> other private organisations. This certification process should include
> minimum substantive rules of protection for the consumer including
> warranties, and a fair and easy dispute resolution mechanism which could
> possibly be free of charge to the consumer. When a site has obtained the
> certification label, it could provide for the application of the law of
> the country of origin and for the courts of that country for the
> residual cases which could not be solved by the dispute resolution
> mechanism part of the certification. If a site has not been certified,
> then the law and the courts of the consumer's location would be
> competent.
>
>    This is a controversial proposal.  I'll provide additional details
> later.  Jamie
>
>
> --
> James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
> v. 1.202.387.8030, fax 1.202.234.5176
> love@cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org

Regards,

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