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
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