I support this statement.

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The NCSG rejects the 3b "temporary registration block." defined in IOC/IFRC 
Drafting Team' recommendation for a number of reasons:

1. Policy recommendations from the GNSO on reserved names can only be made by 
a PDP that is properly constituted and is run according to the process rules 
as established in the ICANN by-laws.

2. This drafting team continues to circumvent proper process by attempting to 
make policy as opposed to performing its proper function of fact gathering 
and presenting information to the council that can be used in deciding on the 
viability and charter for such a PDP.

The NCSG supports the PDP only on the condition that among the possible 
outcomes is the current status quo, no protection at the second level. We 
support the PDP as the only appropriate place to resolve this proposal among 
competing proposals. We believe it is illegitimate to change reserved name 
policy,,,,, no matter how it is euphemistically named, before the PDP runs 
its course.

The NCSG is also aware of other types of humanitarian organization that also 
demand these privileges and we feel that any discussion on granting such 
special reservations must include a full discussion of all who request such 
reservations.

Finally the NCSG does not believe that the reserved name list can be used 
solely for the purpose of new gTLDs, and that any decisions on adding names 
to the reserved list must take incumbent registries into account.


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      [log in to unmask]
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/