Hi,

(report while listening to the g-council meeting)

And as RCRC and IOC have already been granted the special protections, at least temporarily*, we are seeing all sorts of organization who claim to have the same or greater merit for such protections.  If the Board grants temporary* special protections to IGOs, contrary to previous GNSO action** to postpone the work, the clarion call will be even greater.

Today, Thomas gave a fair review of the situation in the PDP WG, though he does maintain the postion, that the letter to the Board should indicate that the GNSO supports the temporary* reservations.

David Cake spoke on the NCSG position on the issue.

avri


* "nothing so permanent as a temporary solution" not sure of the origin of this quote.

**  or perhaps inaction - history

GNSO 20070627-3
"The GNSO Council thanks the Staff for the Issues Report on dispute handling for IGO names and abbreviations.
The council accepts the recommendation that a PDP not be initiated at this time, and that the staff continue as proposed in the issues report on page 16.
The council requests that the staff report back to the council within 3 months. The council will reconsider creating a PDP at that time."

GNSO 20071120-1 - Postponed a decsion to intiate a PDP until a later time

and it appears the council did not get back to it until 2012 and this PDP.



On 14 Feb 2013, at 07:07, Rudi Vansnick wrote:

> Fully agree with Andrew, once one obtains the right many others will stand up and request same right.
> 
> Rudi Vansnick
> 
> 
> Op 14-feb-2013, om 03:53 heeft Andrew A. Adams het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> I seem to recall that our (NCUC, perhaps not NPOC) view on the Board's 
>> decision to grant IOC/ICRC protections without a PDP represented the nose of 
>> the camel in the tent and that this would likely lead to an attempt by the 
>> rest of the IGO community to believe that they could expect similar 
>> treatment). Our prediction is coming true, and this is the rest of the camel 
>> being pushed into the tent. I fully support strong efforts to push for a 
>> proper measured PDP approach to solving this issue and against these ad hoc 
>> special treatments for special interests.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 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/
>