<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">A  recent post by Robert Guerra  has cross posted this post....</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div>For those who may have missed it, ISOC's Public Interest Registry is </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">planning to establish by the end of the quarter a new compulsory private </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">arbitration system that would allow copyright owners to cancel .org </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">domain names based on allegations of copyright infringement:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://domainincite.com/21517-the-pirate-bay-likely-to-be-sunk-as-org-adopts-udrp-for-copyright" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://domainincite.com/21517-<wbr>the-pirate-bay-likely-to-be-su<wbr>nk-as-org-adopts-udrp-for-copy<wbr>right</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is also being pushed as an international best practice standard for </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">other domain registries to adopt:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/healthy-domains-initiative-censorship-through-shadow-regulation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/<wbr>2017/02/healthy-domains-initia<wbr>tive-censorship-through-shadow<wbr>-regulation</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This hardly seems like a measure that's in the "public interest".  What </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">do ISOC members think about this proposal?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">-- </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jeremy Malcolm</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Senior Global Policy Analyst</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Electronic Frontier Foundation</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://eff.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://eff.org</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">jmalcolm@eff.org</a><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Glenn McKnight<br><a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a><br>skype  gmcknight<br>twitter gmcknight<br>.</div></div></div>
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