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**** > [log in to unmask]**** > http://gnso.icann.org**** > ** ** > ** ** > > > > > > IP JUSTICE > Robin Gross, Executive Director > 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA > p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 > w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask] > > > >