GNSO Council voted against PDP to create new dispute resolution process for Inter-Governmental Organizations to take away domain names

[Robin Gross]

Colleagues:

Good news:  In this morning's GNSO Council meeting, the motion to  
launch a policy development process to create new rights to domain  
names for Inter-Governmental Organizations was DEFEATED.

7 votes were needed to launch a PDP, and the proposal was only  
supported by 5 votes.  NCUC, Registries and Registrars voted against  
the PDP.

I appreciated the stated concern from the Registries that since the  
proposal required binding arbitration, national courts would have no  
say to protect the free expression rights of their citizens to use  
domain names.

That vote should be the end of that issue.

Best,
Robin

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