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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Actually the NTIA has it right, Wilkinson is wrong, (and let’s leave Crocker and Chehade off of the cc list ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ICANN is a global coordinator; its whole purpose was to avoid having the DNS partitioned into 192 different jurisdictional requirements. If we want ‘local’
laws to regulate DNS let’s eliminate a global root altogether and turn the Internet into the national PTT telephone system. (Oh, it wouldn’t be the internet then, would it?)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The EC’s idea that it can impose its parochial GI regulations on a global resource is misguided, and an attempt to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction. If
they want to enforce their _<i>local</i>_ rules, let them regulate sale or consumption of the TLD registrations _<i>within their own territory</i>_ nothing stops them from doing that, they already have that authority.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Strickling letter is exactly on target when it asserts that the EC, and certain applicants for .WINE are engaged in special protectionist negotiations and
that those negotiations do not have the consensus support of the GAC, much less the rest of the community.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>CW Mail<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 26, 2014 12:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> IGC LIST<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Steve Crocker; Fadi Chehade<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] .WINE .VIN - who's business is it ?<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/strickling-to-crocker-21may14-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/strickling-to-crocker-21may14-en.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Protection of Geographical Indications by ICANN does not depend on " … GI related obligations in any international legal instrument … " (c.f. Strickling, para 2)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rather, it depends on the Articles of Incorporation of ICANN, Article 4:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">4. The Corporation shall operate for the benefit of the Internet community as a whole, carrying out its activities in conformity with relevant principles
of international law and <b>applicable </b>international conventions and<b> local law</b> and, to the extent appropriate and consistent with these Articles and its Bylaws, through open and transparent processes that enable competition and open entry in Internet-related
markets. To this effect, the Corporation shall cooperate as appropriate with relevant international organisations.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">That clause was introduced into the ICANN Articles of Incorporation in the 1998-99 negotiations between the White House, Jones Day and the European Commission, precisely to
deal with this kind of situation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Accordingly, whilst it is normal for public authorities, such as NTIA or, for that matter, the European Commission, to write letters to ICANN, on this occasion, and on that
point, NTIA has got it wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Christopher Wilkinson.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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