Re: [nc-udrp] the UDRP task force - report

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

Katrina:
Initiative is a good thing - lack of it is why the Task Force 
is foundering now. 

As a skeleton outline of a report your proposal is as good as any. 
Of course, such an outline can be easily proposed and accepted 
because it contains no specific content or proposals, and therefore
is unobjectionable. The hard part will be agreeing on changes (or 
the absence of change), or even identifying the scope of any 
reform or change. 

I would propose under "Recommendations" having two sections:
"Procedural" and "Substantive"

I would also caution this group against investing a great amount
of time in fiddling with the survey results. It is useful to have 
some expressions of opinion, and we should take note of the
results, but what do they prove, really? The survey has already
displaced too much of our energies. We should appoint one person
to summarize the results and get on with the harder and
more important work of deciding what needs to be changed
and what doesn't. There is a great deal of legal, dispute resolution, 
Internet and trademark expertise on this Task Force. It should
not be reduced to opinion polling.

Are there any volunteers to summarize the survey results? 
This should be a ministerial function, not an interpretive one.

>>> "Katrina Burchell" <Katrina.Burchell@unilever.com> 07/05/02 10:23AM >>>



I therefore took it on myself to have a look through the debate on this
subject and I have attached a draft of an outline of a report which I
think we could pad out together.  Let me say that I was initially
reluctant to do this for fear of being criticised for driving forward my
own views on the subject of reform - which some of you wont agree with -
and also because in my experience if you put your head above the parapet
you usually get shot at - but whatever, here goes....

I havent put much meat on the attached simply because if you all shout me
down I would have wasted my time.  If  you like this sort of format and
some of the suggestions I make in it (at the moment just ideas about how
it should look) then, Im happy to co-ordinate your input, go through the
remaining emails on my computer regarding the responses and knock it into
a better shape.

let me know

Katrina