I agree. A brief read of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization</a> indicates that drawing a definitive line would not be easy. <br><br>
<br>joly<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Carlos Afonso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ca@rits.org.br">ca@rits.org.br</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If it were open to any non-profit, they would have to devise a unique<br>
way to identify applicants as non-profit -- how to do this for 200+<br>
countries and keep the process simple? PIR/ISOC escaped this by<br>
continuing the existing policy for .org at the time they won the bid<br>
(just let anyone in).<br>
<br>
frt rgds<br>
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Rebecca MacKinnon wrote:<br>
> For the record, it appears to be a British group spearheading this effort.<br>
> But either way, the same problems would seem to apply.<br>
> I guess this is an interesting<br>
> foreshadowing of the problems people are going to face in creating new<br>
> "community based" gTLDs that would have various requirements attached<br>
> to them,<br>
> and which aspire to be global.<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
> Rebecca<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:36 AM, David Cake <<a href="mailto:dave@difference.com.au">dave@difference.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> At 12:19 AM -0300 30/7/09, Carlos Afonso wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hi Norbert, it seems not to be the worldwide ngo community, but the US<br>
>>> ngo community. Even the concept of "charities" varies widely from<br>
>>> country to country, depending on quite different local laws. This seems<br>
>>> to be a TLD for the 501(c) organizations in the USA and this is it. We,<br>
>>> in the planet outside of those US boundaries, should not bother about<br>
>>> it, I guess.<br>
>>><br>
>> Yeah, that was sort of my concern. An NGO is not the same as a<br>
>> charity in most jurisdictions. A .ngo gTLD 'for charities only' would not<br>
>> only be of no use to most of the NGOs that I am involved in, but would be<br>
>> mildly annoying.<br>
>> (the requirements for 'tax deductible gift recipient' status (ie an<br>
>> official charity) in Australia are much more stringent than those for a US<br>
>> 501 (c), most NGOs are non-profit organisations, but that isn't the same<br>
>> thing as a charity at all)<br>
>> Seems to be a case where a gTLD is being proposed for a US-centric<br>
>> purpose that should really be served by something under the .us ccTLD,<br>
>> partly as a result of laissez-faire management of the appropriate gTLD.<br>
>> FWIW, .org.au is restricted to non-profits and charities.<br>
>> Cheers<br>
>> David<br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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