Thx for sharing this. haven't had the time to read this yet, but i'm hopeful it could be a good test, and it sounds definitely less expansive than what I thought ILP meant at first. Nicolas On 08/04/2012 10:22 AM, Alain Berranger wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > The notion of "International Legal Personality (ILP)" as a "litmus > test" was introduced in the NCSG Policy Committee's motion after early > discussion in San José and later consideration. The Portugal > representative at the GAC meeting in San José referred to similar > notions in San José without however specifically mentioning "ILP" that > I recall - I have not searched for the transcript. > > It should prove to be a tough test to pass for most international > governmental _*and/or non-governmental*_ organizations, to the > exception of UN system organizations. The "UN+10" referred to by Klaus > and Avri, is purely notional but a symbolic way of saying it is not > going to be a lot (maybe 10?) of non-governmental organizations that > can pass the test. It is hard for me to buy the "open floodgate" > argument if the "ILP" fliter is applied. > > Please see http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/4/775.full for a > contextual enquiry into the concept of "International Legal > Personality" in the form of a 2004 publication by J. E. Nijman from > the U. of Amsterdam and review by Robert Kolb of the Université de > Neuchâtel. > > Note the interesting link between "ILP" and "Human Rights" - Robert > Klob argues: /"The theory of ILP thus comes down to a theory of human > rights"/. > > Alain > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, klaus.stoll > <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > Dear Friends > Greetings. I think we need to limit the possibility to an absolute > minimum, (UN + 10 max), IF ANY !, everything else will as Avri > says open up the flood gates and make the whole gTLD system > unmanageable because there will we hundreds if not thousands of > exceptions and an equal number of legal actions for those who > think they deserve them. > Yours > Klaus > *From:* Robin Gross <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > *Sent:* Saturday, April 07, 2012 5:51 PM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > *Subject:* Re: Update on IOC/RC issue: motion proposed by NCSG for PDP > Thanks. I thought we were going to add "IF ANY" to the clause > asking about what other orgs deserve such rights? I worry that we > are inviting a flood gate of requests for privileges by assuming > there will be others (rather than ask the question IF there should > be others first). > Robin > On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:31 AM, [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> The NCSG Policy Committee agreed that, in view of the passage of >> the motion which adopted the IOC-RC Drafting Team's >> recommendations for first-round protections for the IOC and RC, >> the GNSO should consider additional protections - including any >> that might apply to other international governmental >> organizations (IGOs) who have requested similar protections - >> through a full Policy Development Process (PDP) rather than >> through an ad-hoc drafting team. >> Accordingly, we proposed a motion that will be discussed at the >> upcoming GNSO Council meeting next week on Thursday 12 April. >> Coincidentally, a similar (but not identical) motion was also >> proposed by Thomas Rickert, the Nominating Committee appointee to >> the Contracted Parties' House. Both motions can be viewed at >> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+12+April+2012. >> Between now and the Council meeting, we'll be discussing with >> Thomas ways to combine both motions so that the Council need only >> vote on one unified motion. Early indications are that the >> concept is acceptable to some of the other Council members, so >> I'm hopeful that if we can successfully fuse both motions, there >> is a fair chance of its passage. >> Cheers >> Mary >> *Mary W S Wong* >> /Professor of Law/ >> /Chair, Graduate IP Programs/ >> /Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP/ >> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW >> >> Two White Street >> >> Concord, NH 03301 >> >> USA >> >> Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> >> Phone: 1-603-513-5143 <tel:1-603-513-5143> >> >> Webpage: http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php >> >> Selected writings available on the Social Science Research >> Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=437584 >> > > > > -- > Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA > Member, Board of Directors, CECI, http://www.ceci.ca > <http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/> > Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, > www.schulich.yorku.ca <http://www.schulich.yorku.ca> > Treasurer, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, > www.gkpfoundation.org <http://www.gkpfoundation.org> > NA representative, Chasquinet Foundation, www.chasquinet.org > <http://www.chasquinet.org> > Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, http://npoc.org/ > O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824 > Skype: alain.berranger >