[Registrants-rights] Plain Language Summary of Registrant Rights and Responsibilities

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 31 May 2012 15:40, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> This is EXACTLY the kind of issue that provides fodder to the ICANN bashers
>> out there. I would rather have the terms of a third-party-beneficiary
>> clause negotiated within ICANN than forced from the outside by various
>> national laws, in a hodgepodge manner that benefits nobody.
>>
>
> I suppose, but given limited time and political capital, I think it'd be
> more productive to push ICANN to enforce the rules that already exist.
>
> Also, a third party beneficiary rule would not be an unalloyed good thing.
> While it would make it easier for Bill and Dan Balsam to go after spammers
> and other online criminals, it'd also give trademark lawyers yet another
> stick to use to attack innocent bystanders and legitimate parodists.


 Perhaps those two issues could be linked.

If ICANN was doing a better job with internal policing there wouldn't be as
much of a need for third-party intervention, would there?

That, then, becomes part of the  negotiations rather than the subject of
flat-out refusal to discuss,

- Evan