The cp raises the public profile of the public domain and creates a RECORD of efforts that harm and benefit the public domain --- spills-over to future IP policy

(Graham J. Reynolds University of British Columbia (UBC), Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, “The Precautionary Principle and its Application in the Intellectual Property Context: Towards a Public Domain Impact Assessment,” pg online @ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2347922 //pa-ef)

While the factors noted above may already have been considered by bureaucrats and politicians in the legislative drafting process,58 several advantages flow from formalizing their consideration in a public manner through a PDIA. First, formalizing these factors and mandating their review through a PDIA would ensure that each factor is explicitly considered. Second, formalizing these factors and mandating their review through a PDIA would increase openness and transparency within the legislative process, ensuring that the factors are not simply analyzed by bureaucrats and politicians, but that they are seen, by the general public, to have been analyzed. Third, formalizing these factors and mandating their review through a PDIA would create a record of evidence that could be helpful for courts and others seeking to interpret the legislation. This record could also be relied on in future years in seeking to further reform, develop and shape intellectual property legislation and policy.