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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for consulting with the SG about your position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I would advise you to read more carefully the Briefing Paper you sent. The positions you outline below have almost no relationship to the questions that are being
posed in this proceeding or the boundaries that have been proposed. Here is the relevant part of the Briefing Paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1. The Work Track
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">cannot recommend the creation of any specific new dispute resolution<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">procedures
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(see Curative Rights PDP Recommendation #1b).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2. While substantive modifications to the UDRP and/or URS are not prohibited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(Recommendation #1a),
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">an IGO filing a complaint under either the UDRP or URS must<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">nevertheless still demonstrate that it has a trademark or similar substantive legal right<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(Recommendation #2, which seeks to allow an IGO with unregistered trademark rights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to fulfill the UDRP/URS standing requirement by relying on its compliance with Article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">6ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">3. The Work Track’s recommendation(s)
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">must not affect or limit a registrant’s right to file<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">suit in a court of competent jurisdiction
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(including but not limited to the ability to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">request that the court review the outcome of a UDRP/URS panel decision).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">4. The Work Track’s recommendation(s)
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">cannot supplant the role of a court in<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri-Bold">determining the question of an IGO’s immunity
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">from the jurisdiction of that court,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">which is a matter of law to be determined in each case by the relevant court.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In your statement below, Kris, you are proposing to completely change the rules of the entire domain name system, in a way that is not only does not stay within
the scope defined above, but is extremely bad policy from a noncommercial users point of view.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span><span style="color:black">I will be raising some pertinent questions on legitimacy of
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</span><span style="color:black">someone who registers a domain not registered in their own country
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</span><span style="color:black">as a business or WIPO On an international business case firm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">What??? We are the Noncommercial users SG. We are neither businesses or trademark holders, generally. You seem to be implying that the members of this constituency
have no right to register a domain at all. Further, many of us are transnational in outlook or membership. What does “in their own country” mean in this case?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">> </span><span style="color:black">Creating the ccNSO was a good thing as a derivative and this could lead
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</span><span style="color:black">to a proper working of the ccNSO and the main 3 domains, org,net,com
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">–</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">I say this because we need to resonate and ensure clarity in the domain
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">name business such as asia, Africa etc., </span>
<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This is just incoherent. This proceeding is not about the ccNSO it is about whether International Governmental organizations (IGOs) should get some special, trademark-like
rights over their acronyms. Try to stay focused on that issue and how it relates to our interests as noncommercial users.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">now the point I want to make is that we need to push the whole model
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</span><span style="color:black">in a very different way,</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You are not tasked with changing “the whole model.” Stick to the actual issues.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">What kind of rights to IGOs have. Generally, NCSG members do not agree to give the IGOs special privileges over domain names. Try to help us limit their land
grab if you can. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr. Milton L Mueller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Georgia Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">School of Public Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://internetgovernance.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Internet Governance Project</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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