Open letter to ICANN from the Legal Counsels of intergovernmental organizations

[Adam Peake]

Don't IGOs have an automatic observer status in GAC?  ITU used to attend,
OECD I think still does.  Sort of makes it a bit late to be demanding
special treatment now?

Adam



2011/12/19 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>

> Hi
>
> As expected, the UN and other public intergovernmental organizations are
> now demanding that their names and acronyms be protected---not only at the
> top, but the second level as well—"Consistent with the rationale for
> protection envisaged for the important causes represented by the
> International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the
> International Olympic Committee."  The door has been opened, why wouldn't
> they want to go through it?
>
> The letter is attached below.  Kieren has an article on this at
> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/14/igos-special-gtld-exemption.  While I
> agree with him that there is no chance of a TLD application with an
> international organization's name or acronym making it through the
> application process anyway, that the second level demand is problematic,
> and that the guidebook mechanisms would seem sufficient, it's not obvious
> that ICANN can easily tell these organizations to just chill out and expect
> them to go away.
>
> On last Thursday's Council call Wolfgang and I raised questions about how
> GNSO & ICANN would deal with this.  There's a GNSO group being formed to
> work on the RC & IOC, but apparently no consideration of expanding its
> remit at this time.  Clearly, there will have to be a broader discussion
> about the relative merits of transforming the Reserved Names list into a
> broad "rights protection" mechanism. GAC has argued that reserving RC & IOC
> are required by ICANN's public interest mandate; presumably we'll be
> hearing the same here.  The intersection of the DNS and state-related
> claims raises a host of issues which NC may wish to consider and weigh in
> on.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder at indom.com>
> *Date: *December 18, 2011 12:49:08 PM GMT+01:00
> *To: *GNSO Council <council at gnso.icann.org>
> *Subject: **[council] Fwd: Open letter to ICANN from the Legal Counsels
> of intergovernmental organisations (IGO's)*
>
> Councillors,
>
> In the context of our own discussions at the end of last week's meeting,
> please see below the message I was copied on last Friday.
>
> Stéphane
>
>
>
> Début du message réexpédié :
>
> *De : *<Nicola.BONUCCI at oecd.org>
> *Objet : **Open letter to ICANN from the Legal Counsels of
> intergovernmental organisations (IGO's)*
> *Date : *16 décembre 2011 18:00:27 HNEC
> *À : *<rod.beckstrom at icann.org>, <steve at shinkuro.com>, <
> kurt.pritz at icann.org>
> *Cc : *<gac at gac.icann.org>, <heather.dryden at ic.gc.ca>, <jeffrey at icann.org>,
> <amy.stathos at icann.org>, <Josee.FECTEAU at oecd.org>, <
> Alexandra.EXCOFFIER-NOSOV at oecd.org>, <Jill.SCHUKER at oecd.org>, <
> edward.kwakwa at wipo.int>, <bdelachapelle at gmail.com>, <
> stephane.vangelder at indom.com>, <ocl at gih.com>, <DL1516 at oecd.org>
>
> Dear Sirs,****
> ** **
> Several additional International Organizations have signed on to the open
> letter transmitted to you on 13 December.  You will find enclosed the same
> letter containing an updated list of signatories.****
> ** **
> We take this opportunity to also copy the letter to the GNSO President
> Stephane Van Gelder and the ALAC Chair Olivier Crepin-Leblond.****
> ** **
> Sincerely yours,****
> ** **
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>
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> Directorate for Legal Affairs / Direction des affaires juridiques****
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