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[ga-full] Re: [IFWP] Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgements
At the recent TACD meeting, DOC and the FTC both emphasized that the US
government was pushing ICANN to provide valid information regarding
ownership of domains to assist in law enforcement actions and to protect
intellectual property owners.
I think it would be useful for ICANN to have a green paper published on
the privacy issues for domain registration.
Jamie
PS, the Hague conference proposals are quite important, and may someday
be related to ICANN type issues, down the road.
Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> 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,
>
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
> Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!)
> CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
> Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
> E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com
> Contact Number: 972-447-1894
> Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
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