I am a little put off by this proposal. If the IOC and Red Cross are allowed as philanthropic organizations to grab second level domains, who is to judge which second level domains should be protected? Why shouldn't <span lang="fr">Médecins Sans Frontières be accorded this status? What about Jimmie's Little League Fund raising organization? It would seem that if approved future petitions would be harder to reject by the GAC as the structure for exception would have been created.<br>
<br></span>As detailed in the appendix of the GAC Proposal numerous laws and legislation exist regarding the Red Cross and the IOC's brand. As these laws exist I would prefer to see these organizations use them instead of trying to fundamentally twist internet governance to their whim. The existing TLD's have functioned without this kind of "more equal" status accorded to organizations and should stay as such.<br>
<br>-Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">I would be curious to know what the NCSG membership thinks about this proposal from GAC to give special privileges to the Red Cross and International Olympic Committee in the top-level domain name space. <div>
<br></div><div>The GNSO Council will have to vote on this proposal soon, so some awareness and input from the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group on the underlying issue would be very helpful.<br><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf</span></a></span></div>
</div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Robin Gross</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org" target="_blank">Glen@icann.org</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">September 19, 2011 11:07:42 AM PDT<br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">liaison6c <<a href="mailto:liaison6c@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">liaison6c@gnso.icann.org</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>[liaison6c] GAC advice: 1) possible UDRP 2) the IOC and Red Cross/Red Crescent</b><br>
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<div><div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">FYI</span></div><div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Dear Councillors,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The advice provided by the GAC has been posted on page :<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">And can be directly viewed at<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-udrp-14sep11-en.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-udrp-14sep11-en.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Item 11 on the GNSO Council agenda has been updated to read as follows:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Item 11: June 20 Board resolution on new gTLDs (15 minutes)<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">As part of its resolutions on the new gTLD program, the ICANN Board passed a resolved clause during its June 20 meeting in Singapore which contained the following excerpt (Resolved 1.b):<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Refer to Board June 20 2011 motion on new gTLDs:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-20jun11-en.htm" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-20jun11-en.htm</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Incorporation of text concerning protection for specific requested Red Cross and IOC names for the top level only during the initial application round, until the GNSO and GAC develop policy advice based on the global public interest.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The GNSO Council discussed this at its July 21 meeting. A letter was sent by Kurt Pritz to Heather Dryden & Stéphane van Gelder to provide some guidance:<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/pritz-to-dryden-11aug11-en.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/pritz-to-dryden-11aug11-en.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">On September 18, the GAC sent a letter to the GNSO Council providing advice on this topic:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">GAC advice:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">1)<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-udrp-14sep11-en.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">possible UDRP</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">2)<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence/dryden-to-van-gelder-red-cross-14sep11-en.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">the IOC and Red Cross/Red Crescent</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The Council should now discuss next steps and possible courses of action, starting with an answer to the GAC.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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