Open letter to ICANN from the Legal Counsels of intergovernmental organizations

[Avri Doria]

On 22 Dec 2011, at 04:24, Adam Peake wrote:

> Perhaps push harder against olympic, but give if 
> have to with assurance of no further creep, must 
> be written in stone...


There is no writing in stone.
Every decision brings its own bit of creep.
And that is a reason for being very careful.

But yes, giving where one must is good advice.
But knowing when that is the case is tough.

I tend to think we should be removing names, such as ICANN/IANA etc, from the reserved list, not adding them.  But we had a WG during the new gTLD PDP that did not make these decisions - either for adding or deleting.    So I find all of the efforts to add names now, problematic and to be avoided unless we open up a PDP process that looks at the entire issue again, including all the geo names that ICANN has forced onto the list without a PDP to authorize the action.

avri