[PC-NCSG] Fwd: [council] Motion to Request an Issue Report on the protection of names and acronyms of IGOs

[Mary.Wong at law.unh.edu]

Hello again everyone,
 
A similar motion to ours has just been proposed by Thomas Rickert, the
NomCom appointee to the Contracted Parties House (CPH) (see below). In
view of the deadline today for motions, I took the liberty of sending
ours to the Council as well, noting the similarity and possible overlap,
and suggesting that we would welcome discussing the matter with Thomas,
with a view toward fusing the motions. In other words, I wanted to put a
placeholder on the Council's agenda and get our motion in on time, just
in case.
 
I'm not sure if Thomas' motion has the support of the CPH or not. If it
does, and if we can agree on common enough ground to combine the
motions, there is a good chance the request for an issue report will go
through.
 
Cheers
Mary

 
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From: Thomas Rickert <rickert at anwaelte.de>
To:"<council at gnso.icann.org> GNSO" <council at gnso.icann.org>
Date: 4/4/2012 2:05 PM
Subject: [council] Motion to Request an Issue Report on the protection
of names and acronyms of IGOs
St?phane, all,
please find below a motion that I had already announced in Costa Rica.

Best regards,
Thomas

Motion to Request an Issue Report on the protection of names and
acronyms of IGOs

Whereas the ICANN Board has granted protection for the Red Cross and
the IOC until the GNSO and GAC develop policy advice based on the global
interest in its resolution of June 20, 2011 (2011.06.20.01);

Whereas a drafting team of the GNSO Council was established to look at
additional top and second level protections for the IOC and the Red
Cross/Red Crescent movement in the current round of new gTLDs in
response to a GAC proposal based on the June 20, 2011 Board resolution;

Whereas the drafting team is limited to reviewing only top and second
level protections for the IOC and Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement;

Whereas the GNSO Council and the GAC were asked in the letter dated
March 11, 2012 by the ICANN Board to provide policy advice in response
to a letter dated December 13, 2011 from intergovernmental Organizations
on the protection of additional International Governmental Organization
(IGO) names and acronyms both on the top and second level;

Whereas it is possible that more organizations might request special
protection both at the top as well as at the second level for the first
and subsequent rounds of applications for generic TLDs.

THEREFORE BE IT:


Resolved, the GNSO Council requests an Issue Report on protection of
names and acronyms of IGOs at the top and second level for all new
gTLDs.


***
Thomas Rickert, Attorney at Law

Managing Partner, Schollmeyer & Rickert Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
www.anwaelte.de

Director Names & Numbers, eco Association of the German Internet
Industry
www.eco.de





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