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I happen to harbor considerable prejudice against WIPO, considering them possibly the greatest threat & danger to the Human Intellectual Commonweal (or "the clerisy", in its broadest sense). And the U.S. Copyright Office input to it tends to be especially pernicious. Not to mention my disapproval of amending Treaties in a way that bypasses Congressional approval of the changes. So, yes, we need to keep a sharp and cautious eye on anything WIPO propose. We also need to understand the meanings & implications of what they're proposing, and they seem to do a magnificent job of obfuscating this (and the fact that they are sometimes utterly clueless about how the net actually works -- a few years ago they were trying to make ISP's necessary copying, caching, & backing-up of text a violation of copyright -- can lead to even more confusion). I'm planning on waiting until a few people who seem to be credible Experts weigh-in on this before I come to even a tentative conclusion. Other, of course, than to be highly-suspicios of _everything_ people & organizations in postions of Power and Authority do.