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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=050561615-13012007>Here is some additional input regarding the draft SoW
for the sunrise working group, forwarded with Jeff's
permission.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=050561615-13012007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=050561615-13012007>Chuck Gomes</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The whole tone of the
paper is about “<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sunrise</st1:place></st1:City>” rather than “intellectual property
protection.” It presumes that the only mechanisms that have been used are
derivations of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sunrise</st1:place></st1:City>. It also presumed that IP Owners
should have first dibs at domain names in every TLD and the only thing we are
evaluating are processes to make sure that is always the case. For
example, .biz had an IP claims process. It was not an alternative to
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sunrise</st1:place></st1:City> in that
it was not an alternative mechanism to give IP Owners the names. It was an
alternative IP protection mechanism that gave applicants notice of claims by IP
Owners to the names. It in no way guaranteed that IP Owners would get the
name, only that IP Owners would have notice that if they got the name, they
could be subject to challenge. As an IP attorney, I believed then as I do now,
that that was the only system that acted in accordance with the intent and
spirit of the IP laws of most of the word. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IP Laws do not give
brand owners rights in gross to their trademarks in every class of goods and
services. Those laws do not guarantee that anyone else cannot use those
marks. All IP Laws do is put others on notice that if someone third party
has IP rights in a mark and your use of the mark is confusingly similar, then
you could be found to have infringed the third party’s marks. It is up to
the IP Owner then to enforce its own IP rights. As a registry, we should
not be in a position for a number of reasons to automatically give existing IP
owners domain names, especially when there can be other uses of that IP for
purposes which are not confusingly similar to the uses that the IP owner makes
of the names. We, as registries, are not their enforcers of IP
rights. That is and should always be the IP Owner’s job and not
ours.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Again, I am an IP
Owners, and one that has implemented other IP Protection schemes other than
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sunrise</st1:place></st1:City>.
The fact that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Sunrise</st1:City></st1:place> has been forced on .us, .eu and other
domains, should not set the bad precedent for other
TLDs.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sorry for the long
note, but I believe this WG TOR sets the tone for an assumption that the
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sunrise</st1:place></st1:City> must be
implemented in all TLDs. This is not surprising given the source of the
TOR. That said, please see my revisions:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><B><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=maroon size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon">Jeffrey J.
Neuman, Esq</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><FONT color=maroon><SPAN
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style="COLOR: black"> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=maroon size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon">Sr. Director, Law, Advanced Services
& Business Development</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=maroon
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