Changes

* The Procedure for Board Seat 13- IPC did not object on the timetable, however with regards to the subject matter on leaving the all the other issues related to the selection of Board Seat to be decided by the Contracted Party House, IPC requested a parity for the Non-contracted Party House. According to IPC, the Non-contracted Party House should also be allowed to decide how to fill Board seat 14 the following year and shouldn't be required to follow the strategy of the Contracted Party House for seat 13. The constituency emphasized that allowing each House to decide separately how to fill a seat on the ICANN Board is a positive improvement which paved the way to remove party dominance in a contrctual relationship with ICANN regarding GNSO's selection of board members. <ref>[http://ipconstituency.org/PDFs/2010_Feb18_Comments_on_procedure_for_Board_Seat_13.pdf GNSO Operating Procedures on the 2010 Selection Process for ICANN Board Seat 13]</ref>   

* The Procedure for Board Seat 13- IPC did not object on the timetable, however with regards to the subject matter on leaving the all the other issues related to the selection of Board Seat to be decided by the Contracted Party House, IPC requested a parity for the Non-contracted Party House. According to IPC, the Non-contracted Party House should also be allowed to decide how to fill Board seat 14 the following year and shouldn't be required to follow the strategy of the Contracted Party House for seat 13. The constituency emphasized that allowing each House to decide separately how to fill a seat on the ICANN Board is a positive improvement which paved the way to remove party dominance in a contrctual relationship with ICANN regarding GNSO's selection of board members. <ref>[http://ipconstituency.org/PDFs/2010_Feb18_Comments_on_procedure_for_Board_Seat_13.pdf GNSO Operating Procedures on the 2010 Selection Process for ICANN Board Seat 13]</ref>   

* Its Comments for ICANN on Expressions of Interest- IPC strongly expressed its concern regarding ICANN's proposal to implement new [[gTLD]]s without addressing the major issues such as the rights protection, economic impact of new gTLDs, malicious conduct, security and stability (root scaling) and neutral integration, ways on how to solve string contention, the need to impose restrictions to prevent speculation/gaming of Expression of Interest (EOI) etc. IPC also commented that there should be plans to implement effective strategies to protect rights  and prevent trademark abuses. IPC strongly recommend to ICANN that these major issues should be resolved first before opening any EOI.<ref>[http://ipconstituency.org/PDFs/2010_Jan27_IPC_EOI_Comments.PDF Comments for ICANN Expression of Interest]</ref>

* Its Comments for ICANN on Expressions of Interest- IPC strongly expressed its concern regarding ICANN's proposal to implement new [[gTLD]]s without addressing the major issues such as the rights protection, economic impact of new gTLDs, malicious conduct, security and stability (root scaling) and neutral integration, ways on how to solve string contention, the need to impose restrictions to prevent speculation/gaming of Expression of Interest (EOI) etc. IPC also commented that there should be plans to implement effective strategies to protect rights  and prevent trademark abuses. IPC strongly recommend to ICANN that these major issues should be resolved first before opening any EOI.<ref>[http://ipconstituency.org/PDFs/2010_Jan27_IPC_EOI_Comments.PDF Comments for ICANN Expression of Interest]</ref>

* Its Comments to the Recommendations of the [[Special Trademark Issues Review Team]] ("STI")- IPC reiterated that trademarks must be sufficiently protected with efficient and fair mechanisms to avoid court litigation that is burdensome to all involved parties.The Constituency recommended that new gTLD operators should be given the freedom to go beyond the minimum level of protection within  appropriate circumstances and ICANN should that a periodic review of the efficiency of the implementation of new gTLDs.<ref>[http://ipconstituency.org/PDFs/2010_Jan26_IPC_STI_Comments.PDF Comments to the Recommendations of Special Trademark Issues]</ref>

* Its Comments to the Recommendations of the [[Special Trademark Issues Review Team]] ([[STI]])- IPC reiterated that trademarks must be sufficiently protected with efficient and fair mechanisms to avoid court litigation that is burdensome to all involved parties.The Constituency recommended that new gTLD operators should be given the freedom to go beyond the minimum level of protection within  appropriate circumstances and ICANN should that a periodic review of the efficiency of the implementation of new gTLDs.<ref>[http://ipconstituency.org/PDFs/2010_Jan26_IPC_STI_Comments.PDF Comments to the Recommendations of Special Trademark Issues]</ref>

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