Milton Mueller finds ICANN’s Nairobi Board resolutions “painful to read”
Posted by: David Goldstein
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.xxx, ICANN, Kenya, Milton Mueller, Nairobi, trademark holders, vertical integration
Posted date:
March 16, 2010 |
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Milton Mueller gave the ICANN board an A for effort following the fairly large number of resolutions it passed in its meeting last Friday, but an F for substance.
Mueller gave his reasons on a number of issues including:
- “the Board [choosing] to ignore its independent review panel and refused to rectify what was officially determined to be unfair and discriminatory treatment” on the .XXX application
- issuing “a needlessly biased and poorly worded resolution that was an attempt to clarify things but probably did the opposite” on vertical integration
- “bending over backwards to accommodate trademark interests at the expense of market diversity, as most of the resolutions passed refer to various aspects of how to protect trademark owners from the horrifying prospect of letting people register names under new TLDs”
- “in response to complaints that it had set the fee bar for new gTLDs too high, the Board issued a vague instruction to its Advisory Committees and Supporting Organizations ‘develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs.’”
To read the posting by Milton Mueller in full on the Internet Governance Project blog, see:
blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/3/12/4478733.html
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