I personally approve of giving special privileges to the Red Cross/Red
Crescent, but not to the IOO.

The Red Cross is one of the only organizations I trust when I do fundraising
for famine in East Africa.

Thanks, Rigia

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I would be curious to know what the NCSG membership thinks about this
> proposal from GAC to give special privileges to the Red Cross and
> International Olympic Committee in the top-level domain name space.
>
> The GNSO Council will have to vote on this proposal soon, so some awareness
> and input from the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group on the underlying issue
> would be very helpful.
>
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf
>
>
> Thank you,
> Robin Gross
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Glen de Saint Géry <[log in to unmask]>
> *Date: *September 19, 2011 11:07:42 AM PDT
> *To: *liaison6c <[log in to unmask]>
> *Subject: **[liaison6c] GAC advice: 1) possible UDRP 2) the IOC and Red
> Cross/Red Crescent*
>
> FYI
> ** **
> Dear Councillors,****
> ** **
> The advice provided  by the GAC  has been posted on page :
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence****
> ** **
> And can be directly viewed at
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-udrp-14sep11-en.pdf
>
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf
> ****
> ** **
> Item 11 on the GNSO Council agenda has been updated to read as follows:***
> *
> *Item 11: June 20 Board resolution on new gTLDs (15 minutes)*
> As part of its resolutions on the new gTLD program, the ICANN Board passed
> a resolved clause during its June 20 meeting in Singapore which contained
> the following excerpt (Resolved 1.b):****
> Refer to Board June 20 2011 motion on new gTLDs:****
> http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-20jun11-en.htm****
> Incorporation of text concerning protection for specific requested Red
> Cross and IOC names for the top level only during the initial application
> round, until the GNSO and GAC develop policy advice based on the global
> public interest.****
> The GNSO Council discussed this at its July 21 meeting. A letter was sent
> by Kurt Pritz to Heather Dryden & Stéphane van Gelder to provide some
> guidance:
> http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/pritz-to-dryden-11aug11-en.pdf****
> On September 18, the GAC sent a letter to the GNSO Council providing advice
> on this topic:****
> GAC advice:****
> 1) possible UDRP<http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-udrp-14sep11-en.pdf>
> ****
> 2) the IOC and Red Cross/Red Crescent<http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf>
> ****
> The Council should now discuss next steps and possible courses of action,
> starting with an answer to the GAC.****
> 11.1 Discussion
> 11.2 Next steps****
> Thank you very much.****
> Kind regards,****
> ** **
> Glen****
> ** **
> ** **
> Glen de Saint Géry****
> GNSO Secretariat****
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> http://gnso.icann.org****
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