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.