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

[Riaz K Tayob]

And let us be clear. There was enough deception about a single root! How 
many people stood up to nitpick on those points... this is not to say 
people should not be more accurate, but technical niceties (as with the 
single root) are sacrificed at the altar of politics. If it is good for 
the goose then it is good for the gander. And all this talk about taking 
us back to 2003 etc... that is only a concern if you are under the 
illusion that there has been forward movement on CIR... so watch the 
Chinese space on Enhanced Cooperation... The simple point about UN 
bodies is that even if poor countries fight and loose, they at least 
have a fair shot... with fair procedures... and reasonable 
representation... unlike the GAC peonage...

On 2012/08/02 02:19 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> Sorry for the Type there and replacing WHO with WIPO but I do see your
> point. If you look at the trends in other UN venues this year like
> even the UNCTAD, the northern developed country pressure remains
> dominant and the Third World remains touchy........but again, ICANN
> helping pharma associations has to be the last moot!
>
> -- Fooodafied!
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well WHO did not have a mandate to work on counterfeits. It established a
>> task team, hired the head of BigPharma (industry body) to draw up the
>> Legislative Guidelines, funded "official" WHO meetings with WHO member
>> states, held side meetings at the WHO Annual Meetings, and only stopped
>> after its pants were pulled down on a lack of mandate by those poor
>> countries... see Third World Network if you want a preview of forthcoming
>> attractions. Shameless is the word that springs to mind...
>>
>> Time for techies to get "political", eh?
>>
>>
>> On 2012/08/02 01:35 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>>>
>>> ICANN lacks the legitimacy to do anything in this regard. Its contracted
>>> parties can possibly do something such as verisign that has taken down a
>>> number of .com domains in collaboration with the US authorities on various
>>> occasions. The pharma guys are just trying to get some limelight by calling
>>> out to ICANN and trying to attempt a bit of harassing the domain community
>>> by going to WIPO that most of the times appears bewildered on IG or open
>>> access issues. The WIPO itself is yet to face the surges to emerge from the
>>> newGTLD process.
>>>
>>> On the other hand counterfeit drugs of any sort should be countered but
>>> its the payment, postal, freight and delivery systems that require
>>> moderation and not just Internet.
>>>
>>> Somebody must tell the pharma people that ICANN is not the Viagara of the
>>> Internet or the means to stop counterfeit trade of drugs, its just a
>>> .0000001% of the pharma industry's incapacity to keep its business clean and
>>> no business by far is clean!
>>>
>>> Fouad Bajwa
>>>


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