PAB Congratulations to CORE from WIPO.

["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

Dear Colleagues:

I have just posted the following to a list of publishers in Japan and to
other parties interested in domain name issues, including APNic.

BobC

The following is a letter which CORE received from WIPO.  Note in
particular the phrase in paragraph 2, as follows:

"...uniform administrative dispute-resolution procedure addressing abusive
domain name registrations, and a system for exclusions for globally famous
marks in the gTLDs."

It has been very disappointing to us in PSI that the system of exclusion
was not implemented much earlier.  We are pleased to see it clearly stated
in this letter.

In addition, it is well to see that it is to be a "uniform" procedure for
addressing "abusive domain name registrations..."  Uniform
suggests/implies/assures that registrations of all gTLDs, *including* .com,
.org and .net, will come under the WIPO rules.  Sayonara Cybersquatters;-)

Now to the WIPO letter of congratulations to CORE:

World Intellectual Property Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

April 23, 1999

Dear Mr. Stubbs,

I should like to congratulate you on selection of the Internet Council 
of Registrars (CORE), by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names 
and Numbers (ICANN), as one of the five testbed companies in the phase 
of the Shared Registry System for the .com, .net, and .org top level 
domains, and take this opportunity to wish you every success in this 
undertaking.

As you know, development in the Internet domain name system and the 
activities of ICANN are of vital interest to WIPO, as we work to reduce 
the tensions between domain names and intellectual property rights.  The 
final Report in the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process will be published, 
and a recommendations for a uniform administrative dispute-resolution 
procedure addressing abusive domain name registrations, and a system for 
exclusions for globally famous marks in the gTLDs. 

We remain at your disposal to discuss the future implementation of these
recommendations, and look forward to co-operating with you in the
future.

Yours sincerely,

Francis Gurry
Assistant Director General
Legal Counsel

Mr. Ken Stubbs
Executive Committee Chairman
Internet Council of Registrars (CORE)
World Trade Center II, 29, route de Pré-Bois 
CH - 1215 Geneva
Switzerland

cc . Mr. David Maher, Chair Policy Oversight Committee (POC), Chicago
Professor Amadeu Abril I Abril, Barcelona, Spain
       
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Executive Committee, Internet Council of Domain Name Registrars (CORE)
Ken Stubbs, Chair (USA)                    <kstubbs@dninet.net>
Jonathan Robinson, Deputy-Chair (UK) <jonathan@gate.netbenefit.co.uk>
Francois-luc Collignon (Monaco)          <collignon@netbay.net>   
Robert F. Connelly (Japan)                <rconnell@psi-japan.com>
Roberto Gaetano (France)                <Roberto.Gaetano@etsi.fr>
Hal Lubson (USA)                             <hlubsen@altronics.com>
Werner Staub (Switzerland)              <werner@axone.ch>
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