Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>The notion of "International Legal Personality (ILP)" as a "litmus test" was introduced in the NCSG Policy Committee's motion after early discussion in San José and later consideration. The Portugal representative at the GAC meeting in San José referred to similar notions in San José without however specifically mentioning "ILP" that I recall - I have not searched for the transcript. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It should prove to be a tough test to pass for most international governmental <u><b>and/or non-governmental</b></u> organizations, to the exception of UN system organizations. The "UN+10" referred to by Klaus and Avri, is purely notional but a symbolic way of saying it is not going to be a lot (maybe 10?) of non-governmental organizations that can pass the test. It is hard for me to buy the "open floodgate" argument if the "ILP" fliter is applied.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please see <a href="http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/4/775.full">http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/4/775.full</a> for a contextual enquiry into the concept of "International Legal Personality" in the form of a 2004 publication by J. E. Nijman from the U. of Amsterdam and review by Robert Kolb of the Université de Neuchâtel. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Note the interesting link between "ILP" and "Human Rights" - Robert Klob argues: <i>"The theory of ILP thus comes down to a theory of human rights"</i>.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Alain <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, klaus.stoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klaus.stoll@chasquinet.org">klaus.stoll@chasquinet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Greetings. I think we need to limit the possibility to an absolute minimum,
(UN + 10 max), IF ANY !, everything else will as Avri says open up the flood
gates and make the whole gTLD system unmanageable because there will we hundreds
if not thousands of exceptions and an equal number of legal actions for those
who think they deserve them.</div>
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<div>Yours</div>
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<div>Klaus</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG" href="mailto:robin@IPJUSTICE.ORG" target="_blank">Robin Gross</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 07, 2012 5:51 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: Update on IOC/RC issue: motion proposed by NCSG for
PDP</div></div></div>
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I thought we were going to add "IF ANY" to the clause asking about what other
orgs deserve such rights? I worry that we are inviting a flood gate of
requests for privileges by assuming there will be others (rather than ask the
question IF there should be others first).
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<div>Robin<br>
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<div>On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:31 AM, <a href="mailto:Mary.Wong@law.unh.edu" target="_blank">Mary.Wong@law.unh.edu</a> wrote:</div><br>
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<div>Hello everyone,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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 <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+12+April+2012" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+12+April+2012</a>.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Mary</div>
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<div><strong><font color="#800080">Mary W S Wong</font></strong></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA<div>Member, Board of Directors, CECI, <a href="http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/" target="_blank">http://www.ceci.ca</a><br>
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