[ALAC] Draft Statement on the "Strawman" Rights protection mechanisms

[Alan Greenberg]

As you are aware, the Business and Intellectual Property 
Constituencies of the GNSO Commercial Stakeholder Group submitted a 
request to ICANN during the Toronto meeting to make a number of 
changes to the rights protection mechanism associated with new gTLDs. 
Based on a number of a hoc meetings a "strawman" proposal was 
developed and ICANN has put it out for public comment. More can be 
found at https://community.icann.org/x/KYlEAg.

This process has been extremely controversial, and there is 
significant opposition to it within the GNSO (some arguably for very 
good reasons).

Evan and I were asked to draft a statement for the consideration and 
possible approval of the ALAC and it can be found at 
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=38045993. 
The comment period closes on 16 January, so please post any comments quickly.

Evan is travelling at the moment, but his contributions were 
substantive and the document has his support. We both believe that it 
conforms well to positions previously taken by the ALAC.

A copy is attached here for your convenience.


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