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

[Alain Berranger]

Mary,

You did well. Can you please share the email to the Council?

Thks, Alain



On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:36 PM, <Mary.Wong at law.unh.edu> wrote:

>  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
>
>
>  *Mary W S Wong*
> *Professor of Law*
> *Chair, Graduate IP Programs*
> *Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP*
> UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW Two White Street Concord, NH
> 03301 USA Email: mary.wong at law.unh.edu Phone: 1-603-513-5143 Webpage:
> http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php Selected writings available on
> the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at:
> http://ssrn.com/author=437584>>>
>     *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 IGOsSt?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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