[governance] Global Pharma Calls On ICANN To Act Against Online Counterfeits

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

One of the most heated debates within ICANN is related to WhoIS accuracy.
The debate has been gaining momentum for quite sometime, and many community
members are pointing fingers at ICANN for not enforcing the terms of the
Registry-Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RRA) in providing accurate and
up-to-date WhoIS entries. Those who violate the agreement terms must be
warned and then punished if not responding, but ICANN is doing nothing
about that. Recent statistics show that 22% of WhoIS data is updated.

Thus, I can see the article from a perspective where the Pharmaceutical
industry can rely - partially - on accurate WhoIS information to track down
domain names in violation to this industry.

IMO, it will remain a pending debate for a long time.

Fahd

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:

>  [After Global Pharma got WHO to do some work on this, then poor countries
> realised that that this was an industry driven process, they protested at
> WHO, and WHO only relented after getting a number of thwacks... I guess
> ICANN will more amenable given its lack of legitimacy and "can do"
> spirit...after all it was ICANN et al that contributed to make domain names
> equivalent to trademarks... for that there is no problem going to WIPO...
> an UN body... perhaps cos there is money there... not to be crass of
> course... ]
>  Global Pharma Calls On ICANN To Act Against Online Counterfeits Published
> on 28 July 2012 @ 2:06 pm
>
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> Intellectual Property Watch
>
> The international pharmaceutical industry this week released a policy
> statement targeting counterfeit medicines on the internet. Among the
> recommendations was for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers (ICANN) to join the fight.
>
> At the same time, the Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies was launched in
> the United States, aimed at taking down illegal internet pharmacies. More
> information about the CSIP is available here<http://www.safemedsonline.org/>.
>
>
> Four research-based industry associations joined together to issue a joint
> policy statement<http://www.efpia.eu/position-papers/internet-sales-and-access-safe-medicines>on counterfeits online.
>
> The groups are the International Federation of Pharmaceutical
> Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), Pharmaceutical Research and
> Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), European Federation of Pharmaceutical
> Industries and Associations (EFPIA), and Japanese Pharmaceutical
> Manufacturers Association (JPMA).
>
> The groups showed support for governments, law enforcement, the private
> sector and any others, working to stop counterfeit medicines.
>
> And they said, “We call upon [ICANN], which oversees the assignment of
> generic top level domains and accredits domain registrars, to take
> appropriate actions and ensure accountability measures in order to protect
> Internet users from illegitimate online sites that are engaged in the
> illicit sale of prescription medicines.”
>
> Up till now, ICANN has been explicitly considered to be a technical
> oversight body with no policy authority.
>
> But the stakes are high, industry says. “Everybody is at risk of
> counterfeiting,” said Eduardo Pisani, IFPMA director general.
> “Counterfeiting is a crime against patients and poses a public health risk
> that can lead to treatment resistance, extended illness, disability and
> even death.”
>
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