[ALAC] GAC, Geographical Indications and TMCH

[Alan Greenberg]

Many Geographic names are already on the 
restricted list for 2nd/3rd level registration, 
but generally, these do not correspond to wine appellations.

Since the TMCH generally only is involved in 
registrations done at launch time and  during the 
first 90 days of operation, I don't think that 
this would be satisfactory, since my impression 
is that they are looking for an 
ongoing-for-the-life-of-the-domain. Even if the 
TMCH were to impact registrations for the life of 
the TLDs (which has a whole set of problems 
associated with it), it is not clear to me if 
that would be acceptable to the objectors to 
.vin/wine, since it does not prevent 
registrations but just requires the applicant to 
avow that they are not doing anything that 
violates trademarks (or whatever the reason for being in the TMCH).

So, in my mind, it is an option, but probably not 
one that would satisfy the parts of the wine 
industry that are objecting to the delegation.

Alan

At 24/06/2014 03:25 AM, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>As you are aware, the discussion over .vin and 
>.wine is something that has kept the GAC busy 
>lately. As I understand it, the reason for this 
>discussion is whether .vin and .wine should be 
>delegated or not as they may pose a threat to 
>countries that have an important wine industry.
>
>On the session we had with SO/ACs Chairs I 
>didn’t have time to ask this question but anyway 
>I posted it to the AC room chat and wanted to raise it on this list.
>
>The question is whether the GAC has considered 
>or not, to ask the TMCH to include geographic 
>indications to their set of intellectual 
>property assets that can be protected through 
>this mechanism rather than continue a discussion that can be endless.
>
>I would think that adding GIs to the TMCH 
>structure could solve this problem and let .vin 
>and .wine be delegated properly.
>
>What are your thoughts on this?
>
>All the best,
>
>
>
>León
>
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