I took the opportunity to remind Council that we've seen these issues before (and punted them then, as we should do again). > I note that the GNSO had an Issues Report on the protection of IGO names > at the second level in 2007. At that time, Council did not start a PDP > on dispute-resolution process for IGO names. > > <http://gnso.icann.org/issues/igo-names/issues-report-igo-drp-15jun07.pdf> > <http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-20dec07.html> > > I'll also note, as I have before, that many of the acronyms of IGOs are > short and in common, non-confusing usage as words and abbreviations for > many other purposes. I don't think there's a basis for blocking them at > the second level. WHO knows, even you might be using some. WB soon! > > --Wendy > On 12/19/2011 01:22 AM, William Drake wrote: > Hi > > As expected, the UN and other public intergovernmental organizations are now > demanding that their names and acronyms be protected---not only at the top, but > the second level as well—"Consistent with the rationale for protection envisaged > for the important causes represented by the International Federation of Red > Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Olympic Committee." The > door has been opened, why wouldn't they want to go through it? > > The letter is attached below. Kieren has an article on this at > http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/14/igos-special-gtld-exemption. While I agree > with him that there is no chance of a TLD application with an international > organization's name or acronym making it through the application process anyway, > that the second level demand is problematic, and that the guidebook mechanisms > would seem sufficient, it's not obvious that ICANN can easily tell these > organizations to just chill out and expect them to go away. > > On last Thursday's Council call Wolfgang and I raised questions about how GNSO & > ICANN would deal with this. There's a GNSO group being formed to work on the RC > & IOC, but apparently no consideration of expanding its remit at this time. > Clearly, there will have to be a broader discussion about the relative merits of > transforming the Reserved Names list into a broad "rights protection" mechanism. > GAC has argued that reserving RC & IOC are required by ICANN's public interest > mandate; presumably we'll be hearing the same here. The intersection of the DNS > and state-related claims raises a host of issues which NC may wish to consider > and weigh in on. > > Best, > > Bill > > Begin forwarded message: > >> *From: *Stéphane Van Gelder <[log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >> *Date: *December 18, 2011 12:49:08 PM GMT+01:00 >> *To: *GNSO Council <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >> *Subject: **[council] Fwd: Open letter to ICANN from the Legal Counsels of >> intergovernmental organisations (IGO's)* >> >> Councillors, >> >> In the context of our own discussions at the end of last week's meeting, >> please see below the message I was copied on last Friday. >> >> Stéphane >> >> >> >> Début du message réexpédié : >> >>> *De : *<[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >>> *Objet : **Open letter to ICANN from the Legal Counsels of intergovernmental >>> organisations (IGO's)* >>> *Date : *16 décembre 2011 18:00:27 HNEC >>> *À : *<[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, >>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >>> *Cc : *<[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, >>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, >>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] >>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, >>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >>> >>> Dear Sirs, >>> Several additional International Organizations have signed on to the open >>> letter transmitted to you on 13 December. You will find enclosed the same >>> letter containing an updated list of signatories. >>> We take this opportunity to also copy the letter to the GNSO President >>> Stephane Van Gelder and theALAC Chair Olivier Crepin-Leblond. >>> Sincerely yours, >>> > > > >>> >>> >> *Nicola Bonucci >>> >> *Director & Accession Coordinator / Directeur et coordonnateur de l’adhésion >>> >> Directorate for Legal Affairs / Direction des affaires juridiques >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> 2, rue AndréPascal- 75775 Paris Cedex 16 >>> >> Tel: +33 1 45 24 80 77 – Fax: +33 1 44 30 62 45 >>> >> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>||www.oecd.org >>> >> <http://www.oecd.org/> >>> >> Follow us on: >>> >> <http://www.facebook.com/theOECD> >>> >>> >>>>> <http://www.facebook.com/theOECD><http://www.youtube.com/oecd> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> <http://www.youtube.com/oecd><http://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd><http://twitter.com/OECDtweet> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> <http://twitter.com/OECDtweet> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> -- Wendy Seltzer -- [log in to unmask] +1 914-374-0613 Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://wendy.seltzer.org/ https://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/