[governance] .WINE .VIN - who's business is it ?

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

Napa and Sonoma US wine producers are worried about carpetbaggers (.vin and
.wine applicants). So are non US wine producers.

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/thompson-to-crocker-21may14-en.pdf

Let's see whether the ICANN law is more relevant than a member of the US
Congress well connected with major law committees.
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À vôtre santé. Louis.
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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Erick Iriarte <eiriarte at alfa-redi.org>
wrote:

> Dear Milton
>
> Do you know the: Lisbon - The International System of Appellations
> of Origin
> http://www.wipo.int/lisbon/es/
>
> And in effect US is not part of this Treaty, but the other countries yes.
>
> In several free trade agreements from US with other countries, they
> included geographical and
>
> for example
> Peru-USA FTA - 16.2.2.
> http://www.acuerdoscomerciales.gob.pe/images/stories/eeuu/ingles/Intellectual_Property_Rights.pdf
> "Geographical indications means indications that identify a good as
> originating in the territory of a Party, or a  region or locality in that
> territory, where a given quality, reputation, or other characteristic of
> the good is  essentially attributable to its geographical origin. Any sign
> or combination of signs, in any form whatsoever,  shall be eligible to be a
> geographical indication"
>
> I suppose included too in TPPA and TAFTA
>
> So... you are wrong and Christopher is right :)
>
> Erick
>
>
>
> On 28 May 2014, at 21:57, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>
> Actually the NTIA has it right, Wilkinson is wrong, (and let's leave
> Crocker and Chehade off of the cc list ;-)
> 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?)
>
> 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 _*local*_ rules, let them
> regulate sale or consumption of the TLD registrations _*within their own
> territory*_ nothing stops them from doing that, they already have that
> authority.
>
> 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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