ICA to ICANN: The IRT Must Open Up Or Be Stripped of Official Status and Support

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http://www.internetcommerce.org/node/179

The ICA has just submitted a formal request to Mr. Frank Fowlie, ICANN Ombudsman, requesting an immediate investigation of the non-compliance of the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) with applicable provisions of ICANN’s Bylaws.

Further, it is becoming clear that the IRT is in significant part an expedited, backdoor process for proposing and implementing major changes in second level dispute procedures that will undermine and displace the UDRP and thereby substantially diminish the procedural and substantive rights it presently affords to good faith domain registrants