On 2/5/12, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I agree here with Avri. The guidebook has enough safeguards to prevent > misuse of the names of any IGO, NGO or other organisations. If you start to > make exceptions as part of a "policy" you end in a nowhere land. Each case - > if one appears - can be handled individually and there a lot of instruments > you can use to stop the misuse of an established and recognized IGO/NGO > name. +1 With regard to IGOs, this wll become part of GACs responsibilities, to > go through the list of applications and to raise concerns if a private > corporation applies for a new gTLD like .itu. It might even be the job of the Independent Objector under "Community Objections" to object to something like .redcross or even .itu. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel