Dear Friends Greetings. The position of NPOC is very close to that of Avri. The constituency is at the moment preparing a formal response on the issue which we will share as soon as possible. Yours Klaus On 5/26/2014 9:29 AM, William Drake wrote: > Agree with Avri, IGOs & some NGOs have legitimate concerns here and this was what ‘the community’ could work out as a mutually acceptable framework. > > I would think NPOC would be particularly interested in this ‘operational concern’... > > Bill > > > On May 25, 2014, at 11:47 PM, Avri Doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On 25-May-14 17:05, McTim wrote: >>> I do not support this notion at all. >> Oh good. >> >> I tend toward supporting it. So we can share reasons. >> >> I tend to think that we need something for IGOs and NGOs that is the >> equivalent protection to what business get by their use of trademarks. >> I am not all that found of trademarks, especially on common language, >> but they do exist and the do give advantages to commercial entities. >> >> I think the IGOs and those NGOs recognized by ECOSOC should get the same >> level of protections that we have according the commercial enterprises. >> I tend to look for parity in such things and this seems like that to >> me. IGOs can't use the trademark system. Some NGOs can, but not globally. >> >> While I would personally prefer that trademarks had fewer privileges, I >> think that IGOs and ECOSOC recognized NGOs should have the same privileges. >> >> avri > *********************************************** > William J. Drake > International Fellow & Lecturer > Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ > University of Zurich, Switzerland > Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, > ICANN, www.ncuc.org > [log in to unmask] (direct), [log in to unmask] (lists), > www.williamdrake.org > *********************************************** > . >