for me it's not so much an issue of protecting Red Cross brand - it's an issue of protecting consumers who might want to contribute to Red Cross from domain name scammer activity

Of course, Rosemary. This NPOC issue has nothing whatsoever to do with one's policy position on Whois, trademarks or anything else. It is about the appropriate way in which these policy differences are reflected in the NCSG.

NPOC has applied to create a (confusingly named) new constituency under the old constituency-silo mode. This would create an organizational "walled garden" for all nonprofits who support their views, and segregate NCSG into separate, competing (if not warring) factions who do not need to communicate with each other or work together. Now multiply this process tenfold times for every other policy difference that comes along. You can see where it leads: to a dead end, an ineffectual NCSG.