I may be no more than a cheerleader here, but the roar from the stands has often pushed the players to victory. Hear me roar. Lou On 2/14/2013 8:01 AM, Avri Doria wrote: > Hi, > > (report while listening to the g-council meeting) > > And as RCRC and IOC have already been granted the special protections, at least temporarily*, we are seeing all sorts of organization who claim to have the same or greater merit for such protections. If the Board grants temporary* special protections to IGOs, contrary to previous GNSO action** to postpone the work, the clarion call will be even greater. > > Today, Thomas gave a fair review of the situation in the PDP WG, though he does maintain the postion, that the letter to the Board should indicate that the GNSO supports the temporary* reservations. > > David Cake spoke on the NCSG position on the issue. > > avri > > > * "nothing so permanent as a temporary solution" not sure of the origin of this quote. > > ** or perhaps inaction - history > > GNSO 20070627-3 > "The GNSO Council thanks the Staff for the Issues Report on dispute handling for IGO names and abbreviations. > The council accepts the recommendation that a PDP not be initiated at this time, and that the staff continue as proposed in the issues report on page 16. > The council requests that the staff report back to the council within 3 months. The council will reconsider creating a PDP at that time." > > GNSO 20071120-1 - Postponed a decsion to intiate a PDP until a later time > > and it appears the council did not get back to it until 2012 and this PDP. > > > > On 14 Feb 2013, at 07:07, Rudi Vansnick wrote: > >> Fully agree with Andrew, once one obtains the right many others will stand up and request same right. >> >> Rudi Vansnick >> >> >> Op 14-feb-2013, om 03:53 heeft Andrew A. Adams het volgende geschreven: >> >>> I seem to recall that our (NCUC, perhaps not NPOC) view on the Board's >>> decision to grant IOC/ICRC protections without a PDP represented the nose of >>> the camel in the tent and that this would likely lead to an attempt by the >>> rest of the IGO community to believe that they could expect similar >>> treatment). Our prediction is coming true, and this is the rest of the camel >>> being pushed into the tent. I fully support strong efforts to push for a >>> proper measured PDP approach to solving this issue and against these ad hoc >>> special treatments for special interests. >>> >>> -- >>> Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] >>> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and >>> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics >>> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ >