[At-Large] News on the .health TLD allocation

[Carlton Samuels]

Quite the truth.  "Trust us' does have it downside. Parminder has
identified one of them.  So-called local marks are also outliers in this
game.

Carlton


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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:29 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
wrote:

>
> On Friday 29 August 2014 09:02 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>
>> Dear Rosa,
>>
>> thank you very much for this follow-up. Yes indeed, we have seen this
>> allocation.
>> I note that the successful applicant will enforce restrictions, or at
>> least police applications, in order to reduce the likelyhood of fake
>> pharmacies using the zone.
>>
>
> And of course, for a US based organisations, a fake, or less than fully
> fine, pharmacy will be a third world organisation selling generic cheap
> drugs, that are perfectly legal both in that country and any another third
> world country that it may sell to, but which may not meet the extra
> ordinarily high intellectual property standards of the US, designed to
> benefit the rich, and against the poor... The global techno structures
> become the new international law, in the manner of the famous saying that '
> code is law'. while the civil society community around these key governance
> functions seem least bothered... parminder
>
>
>  It would be interesting to see performance
>> metrics of such enforcement a few years down the line.
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
>> ALAC Chair
>>
>>
>> On 28/08/2014 13:56, Rosa Delgado wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Olivier and Dev,
>>>
>>> Perhaps you have already heard about this news but just in case, pls
>>> find below an interesting link.
>>> Thank you a lot for the support shown through the Objections filed by
>>> the ALAC
>>> All the best,
>>> Rosa Delgado
>>>
>>>
>>> *Straat-backed bidder beats Donuts and Afilias to .health*
>>> DotHealth has won the four-way contention set for the controversial
>>> new gTLD .health.
>>>
>>> http://domainincite.com/17207-straat-backed-bidder-beats-
>>> donuts-and-afilias-to-health
>>>
>>>
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