Re: [council] GAC letter on Geographic Names

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Zahid,

I have included the gist of your very useful comments in the draft I have
prepared.

Stéphane


Le 07/05/09 16:59, « Zahid Jamil » <zahid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Of much concern to me is:
>  
> ³In relation to potential misuse of the respective names on the second level:
>  
> In the event that a government or relevant public authority (or the GAC)
> notifies ICANN that there is misuse of any second level domain name in
> relation to the provisions of article 2 of the GAC principles, ICANN shall
> notify the registry and request the suspension of the said name pending the
> withdrawal of the objection by the relevant government. GAC considers that the
> respect for such provisions and procedures needs to be a contractual
> obligation on the part of the registry.²
>  
> So government or ?relevant public authority¹ get a complete veto over any
> domain name and there isn¹t even a the possibility of a dispute resolution
> process.  So governments or ?relevant public authority¹¹s could abuse this.
> this is not transparent.
>  
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