Shh...it's a secret
On Monday, ACTA negotiators took questions at a public meeting. No text has been revealed.
He made the case that the ACTA process was as open as it could be, and pointed out that the US has just taken a second round of public comments from any group that wants to submit them. There’s no draft text because, said McCoy, no such text yet exists; ACTA is still very much in the drawing-up stage, and progress is expected at an October meeting in Tokyo. With proposals still hazy, McCoy could get into few specifics, and he is bound by the confidentiality of the negotiating process from talking about what other countries have proposed so far.
As for what ACTA is not, McCoy stressed that it will not rewrite US law, it will not be about searching laptops and iPods at the border, and it isn’t simply an attempt to placate Big Content at the expense of everyone else. McCoy explicitly said that USTR wants to engage with Google and ISPs and others before making any final decisions on language, and he said that USTR is committed to a good agreement, not just a fast agreement.
Is this sufficient?