IP: Upcoming WIPO Hearings on Domain Names in CA & DC

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

">World
> Intellectual
> Property
> Organization
>
> Invitation
>
> Global Consultations on Internet Domain Name Issues
>
> Questions relating to Internet domain names, including intellectual
> property and related dispute resolution issues, will be addressed at a
> series of worldwide consultation meetings initiated by the World
> Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
>
> To encourage the widest possible participation, the WIPO Internet Domain
> Name Process seeks to include the public sector and representatives from
> the business, trademark, Internet engineering and public interest
> communities in the discussions.  Everyone may participate via the
> Internet, or by attending regional consultations at any of the following
> locations and dates:
>
> San Francisco, California, USA     Sept. 23
> Brussels, Belgium                  Sept. 29
> Washington, DC, USA                 Oct.  1
> Cairo, Egypt                        Oct.  4
> Mexico City, Mexico                 Oct.  6
> Cape Town, South Africa              Oct. 7
> Asuncion, Paraguay                  Oct. 13
> Tokyo, Japan                        Oct. 19
> Hyderabad, India                    Oct. 22
> Budapest, Hungary                   Oct. 22
> Sydney, Australia                   Oct. 26
>
> These one-day consultations are free and open to all
> members of the public.  Participants may attend and
> participate in the open discussions, or elect also to
> present a Statement at the meetings - which will also
> be attended by WIPO officials and members of the
> Panel of Experts constituted for the WIPO Process.
>
> More information about the Process and the
> Consultation meetings is available at
> http://wipo2.wipo.int.  WIPO RFC-2, which lists
> the issues to be discussed at the meetings, will be
> posted at this Internet site shortly.
>
> The recommendations resulting from this Process
> will be made available to the new Organization that
> is being formed to manage the technical and
> policy aspects of the Internet Domain Name System.