Comments of the Center for Democracy and Technology

[Jim Dempsey <jdempsey@cdt.org>]

These comments explore the broader civil liberties issues involved in name
registration in general and trademark dispute resolution in particular. We
focus on possible privacy concerns with the creation, access to and use of
the domain name registration database(s). No immediate solutions are
presented. Our basic message is that establishing privacy rules will not be
easy, but that the rules currently proposed by ICANN are inadequate and
that the task must be given fuller attention through a broader consultative
process. We also briefly mention some free expression/access concerns.

http://www.cdt.org/dns/icanncomments.shtml




Jim Dempsey

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