Re[2]: [ga] New TLD Agreements

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 15:06 27/02/01 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:

>
>The UDRP is the single most glaring flaw with ICANN at the moment.  It
>should be completely suspended until it is reformed.
>

Milton Mueller, Kathy Klein  and Michael Froomkin have made concrete
suggestions for reform.
Those who keep on hammering the URDP without working on good solutions help
perpetuating the unnecessary divisive fight between TM owners and DN
owners, enabling ICANN to "divide and rule" its DNSO constituencies.

IMHO, the URDP is the single biggest Red Herring that ICANN has yet spawned.

The underlying real Flaw that needs to be addressed is the DN lock-in
effect and the resulting potential for abuse of registry powers.
The original NSI policy on Name transfer (30-day letter) was a typical
example of such abuse, leading directly to the UDRP.

--Joop--
Former bootstrap of the CA/idno
       The Polling Booth 
www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/

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