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

[Carlton Samuels]

I made a few comments on the wiki.
-Carlton

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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>wrote:

> 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<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<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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