<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+1. <div class="">Criticism of ICANN that starts from the position that expanding IP rights is always in the public interest is extremely suspect. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The unsustainability of ICANNs continued budget expansion without a corresponding increase in new gTLD related income is both a huge institutional flaw that can not be simply blamed on the multistakeholder process, and further represents a risk to ICANNs responsible board management, in that further board decisions may be taken with an eye to increased income. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 6 Jun 2019, at 11:27 am, Michael Karanicolas <<a href="mailto:mkaranicolas@GMAIL.COM" class="">mkaranicolas@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Interesting discussion. I agree with parts of the article, though as others have noted, the author seems to gloss over the efforts of many in the ICANN community to push back against the very behaviours that he flags and demand better (though with admittedly mixed results...).<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I also take exception to its constant conflagration of ICANN's Intellectual Property Rights Protection Mechanisms with "the global public interest". As someone who's active in the RPMs working group, I can tell you there are many aspects of these mechanisms which are very much counter to the public interest, extending trademark rights vastly beyond the limits that are established under traditional IP law. Painting the failure to expand these rights still further as some kind of organizational flaw reflects a very particular way of looking at the world.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Michael</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:13 PM Schaefer, Brett <<a href="mailto:Brett.Schaefer@heritage.org" class="">Brett.Schaefer@heritage.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:41 AM Paul Rosenzweig <<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank" class="">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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