Responses
The concept paper on indigenous traditional knowledge (E/C.19/2007/10), and prepared by the Special Rapporteur on the subject, Michael Dodson. The Permanent Forum recommended that the paper be widely circulated and that there be a call for written submission on how indigenous traditional knowledge could be protected at the international level by utilizing customary law. Mr. Dodson, as Special Rapporteur, was requested to present a follow-up study on indigenous traditional knowledge (see E/2007/43, chap. I, sect. B, para. 145);