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WIPO Holds Series of Global Consultations on Internet Domain Name Issues

Geneva, September 15, 1998
Press Releases PR/1998/142

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 the locations indicated.

Diary of regional consultations:

San Francisco, California, USA Sept. 23
Brussels, Belgium Sept. 29
Washington, DC, USA Oct. 1
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
Cairo, Egypt Nov. 1
Sydney, Australia Nov. 4

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 is available at http://wipo2.wipo.int/process. 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.

Persons interested in participating are invited to register on-line at http://wipo2.wipo.int. Persons wishing to present Statements are requested to register to do so at least one week before the relevant meeting.

Additional information is available from the Office of Legal and Organization Affairs, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO):

Tel: (+41 22) 338 91 64
Fax: (+41 22) 740 37 00
E-mail: sue.olesen@wipo.int

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