Dear Robin
Are you questionning the content of the special privileges or the special
privileges as such, just for these organisations?

I leave the content part to the specialists. For the privileges I suppose
there should be a very good rationale to do so. I am not aware of it.

In general I am not in favor of privileges for large organisations except if
this is part of a strategic move, helping openning the door for smaller ones
that can asked for the same afterwards.... I do not know if this is the
case.
Best
Caroline Figueres
IICD

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Op 5 okt. 2011 om 01:25 heeft Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> het volgende
geschreven:

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


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