Sunday, August 11, 2013

ICANN calls for comments on Rights Protection Mechanism

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has called for comments on Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) with deadline set for August 27, 2013.

ICANN also outlined the operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims processes in the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), and a set of community-proposed revisions, are being posted for comment to give an opportunity for the community to review and provide feedback on these requirements.

DigitalSENSE Business News gathers that the current status is that this revised version of the RPM requirements reflects updates based on community consultations, and a set of proposals from the community are being posted to allow affected stakeholders to review and provide input.

Equally, the public comment, ICANN said would be analyzed and taken into account by ICANN, stressing that it has published both technical requirements and operational requirements for implementation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims services required in the New gTLD Programme.

Based on the operational requirements, ICANN noted that in the draft form on 6 April 2013 a variety of feedback and comment were provided including an open consultation for interested stakeholders to provide feedback.

ICANN further said it has considered the input received and has created a revised version of the RPM Requirements that is being published for comment.

Pointing out that a group of community stakeholders including a number of applicants has also engaged with ICANN on some identified issues and has proposed a set of revisions for inclusion in the RPM requirements, to provide greater flexibility and support for certain business objectives.

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