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[ispcp] .xxx Briefing Notes
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- Subject: [ispcp] .xxx Briefing Notes
- From: Mark McFadden <mcfadden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:30:28 -0600
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Internet Service Provider and Connectivity Provider Constituency
Generic Names Supporting Organization
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NOTES - Conference Call for .xxx Briefing
Mark McFadden and Tony Harris represented the ISPCP on this conference
call. These notes are a very rough guide to the conversation during the
call. A PowerPoint presentation was made available to the participants
and it is attached to this message.
The ICM Registry CEO gave an overview of the .xxx application and the
process that they have been going through. In March of 2004 ICM
Registry submitted the sTLD application and in June of 2005 the ICANN
Board determined that the ICM proposal met the published the sTLD
criteria. In May of 2006 the ICANN Board rejected proposed registry
agreements. In January 2007 ICANN posted a revised, negotiated registry
agreement.
The ICM Registry claims significant support for the proposal -- however,
they are not making the organizations that have supported the proposal
available to the public. ICM's Registry has a pre-registration service
that is already in place.
ICM is reserving expanded geographic identifiers as well as a list of
names that will not be available for registry. The ICM CEO stressed
that there are strict eligibility requirements -- they must be members
of the online adult community. The ICM Registry makes a distinction
between non-resolving strings and resolving strings (the resolving
string holders have to be members of the online adult community, those
who are not resolving the strings would not have to be members of the
adult services community).
Regarding whois: they will be supporting proxy services that are
approved by ICM. Holder data will be verified and retained by the ICM
registry. Marilyn Cade brought up the problem of performance of the
proxy service provider. The ICM CEO said that this would be addressed
in performance contracts between ICM and the proxy agents. The proxy
agents would probably be the lawyers of those adult industry
participants. A significant part of the discussion revolved around the
ability to use proxy services. For those names that are not resolving,
there will not be a significant verification of the holder of the name.
Non-resolving names can never become resolving names according to the
rules of the registry. Non-resolving names can be registered by anyone
for any reason. There is no qualification rule for non-resolving names.
IP holders do not want to have to go after all the possible variants
of a trademark holders registered names.
There was significant discussion about mechanisms that could be used to
abuse trademark or IP in either non-resolving strings or in the
potential of moving a non-resolving name to resolving status. Much of
the discussion was technical legal discussion surrounding the protection
of servicemarks and trademarks.
ICM has also been offering (since may of 2006) a free "Pre-Reservation
service to IP holders. This gives trademark holders a chance to reserve
non-resolving strings.
If, during the pre-registration period, there is only one registration
for a name, that organization will get to register that string. There
will be a fee for "stop" requests made by trademark holders.
ICRA will be relaunched on the 13th of February of this year as the
Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). FOSI's mission will be to be a
body where technology and policy stakeholders meet in the field of
family online safety. Founding members include AOL, AT&T, BT, Cisco,
CompTIA, the GSM Association, Microsoft, RuleSpace, SolarSoft, Telmex
and Verizon. ICM is in negotiations at this time regarding how its
sites will be labeled.
Questions outside Intellectual Property concerns were ruled out of order
and not allowed on the call.
Becky Burr said that, if the ICANN Board approved the registry
agreement, they would still have time to address the policy issues that
came up regarding IP during the call. The ICANN Board, it was noted,
approved the application to be added into the root. The issue on the
table now is the contract. The inital contract was rejected on concenrs
about policy development commitments. Becky Burr offered to get
together with anyone in Washington DC. Becky offered to answer
questions via email.
The conference call ended after 60 minutes.
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