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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Dear Councilors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Please see the message below that was sent by the Red Cross representatives yesterday. On behalf of the Council and the chairs, staff have acknowledged receipt of the note.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thanks and cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Mary Wong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Senior Policy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Email: mary.wong@icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Salah Mathlouthi <smathlouthi@icrc.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, May 23, 2016 at 23:59<br>
<b>To: </b>Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Nigel Hickson <nigel.hickson@icann.org>, Charlotte Lindsey Curtet <clindsey@icrc.org>, Stephane Hankins <shankins@icrc.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Draft GNSO Communication to the Board - Red Cross and Red Crescent protections
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Dear Mary,</span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">We hope this message finds you well.</span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial"> </span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">(1) We have received a copy of the GNSO Council’s intended letter to ICANN’s Board seeking an update from the Board on next steps in regard to the dual issues of the protections of “Red Cross and Red Crescent identifiers” and
“International Government organizations acronyms”, and suggesting that both sets of issues be addressed “in tandem”. We also note that the draft letter refers to the issues of the protections of the Red Cross and Red Crescent designations and names and to
IGO acronyms in the singular (“as one”), and thus, in disregard of the distinct legal regimes and policy issues at stake.</span>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial">We would like herewith to express our deep concern in this regard and to request, in line with the consistent positions and representations made by the Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations to the Board and to ICANN constituencies
in the last years, including the GNSO, that the protections that are due to the red cross and red crescent designations and names require to be considered
<i>in their own right and distinctiveness</i>.</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial">(2) As you will no doubt recall, and as reminded by the ICRC during its meeting with the</span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial">GNSO’s leadership members in Marrakesh and in its oral intervention during the GNSO
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<span style="font-family:Arial">Council session held on 14 April 2016, the protections due to the red cross and red crescent
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<span style="font-family:Arial">designations and names find their source in </span>
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<span style="font-family:"sans-serif","serif"">- </span><span style="font-family:Arial">universally agreed and compulsory norms of international humanitarian law and in the domestic laws in force in multiple national jurisdictions; as well as in</span>
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<span style="font-family:"sans-serif","serif"">- </span><span style="font-family:Arial">the distinct global public interest in ensuring respect and protection for these designations and names from improper or unauthorised use (including in situations of
humanitarian emergencies in which the Red Cross and Red Crescent identifiers are at particular risk of fraudulent use on the Internet).</span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial">This makes up a unique and <i>sui generis</i> case for the permanent and unconditional reservation of these designations and names from registration as top and second domain names.
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<span style="font-family:Arial">This has been recognized by the Board and the NGPC in particular in its past determinations which have confirmed that the Red Cross and Red Crescent protections as distinct. This also conforms to the GAC’s consistent advice on
this matter as outlined in recent GAC Communiqués and that address the Red Cross and Red Crescent protections in stand-alone and separate paragraphs.
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<span style="font-family:Arial"> </span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">(3) While the initial GNSO recommendations regarding the protections of the Red Cross and Red Crescent designations and names may have indeed been developed in the context of a broader PDP (<i>“On the protection of IGO and INGO
Identifiers in all gTLD’s”</i>), the question of the Red Cross and Red Crescent reservations have since remained separate from the IGO/INGO issues and must continue to merit a distinct treatment and consideration.
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<span style="font-family:Arial">We are hence of the view that any suggestion that the Red Cross and Red Crescent protections could or should be
<i>re-coupled</i>, or be addressed “in tandem”, with the protections called for in regard to IGO’s and their acronyms, would represent an undue retreat on ICANN’s most recent determinations, approaches and processes.
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<span style="font-family:Arial">We would like to thank the GNSO for its kind attention to the above concerns. We remain available to support and/or to attend any future consultations in this matter to be held, for instance, during ICANN 57 in Helsinki.</span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial">Sincerely yours,</span> <br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial">Stéphane</span> <br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial">Stéphane J. Hankins</span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">Legal adviser</span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">Cooperation and Coordination within the Movement</span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial">International Committee of the Red Cross</span> <br>
<span style="font-family:Arial">Direct line: ++0041 22 730 24 19</span> <br>
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<span style="color:#A1009F">-----Transféré par Stephane Hankins/DIR_GEN_MOUV_CHF/GVA/ICRC le 23/05/2016 16:31 -----</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">A : Stephane Hankins/DIR_GEN_MOUV_CHF/GVA/ICRC@ICRC<br>
De : Daiana Barbancho Savage/CIM_DIR/GVA/ICRC<br>
Date : 23/05/2016 14:03<br>
Cc : Charlotte Lindsey Curtet/CIM_DIR/GVA/ICRC@ICRC<br>
Objet : Letter<br>
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<i>(See attached file: docxKk10U26N6N.docx)</i> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Re: [council] Draft Letter to the Board on Red Cross Names & Identifier</b>
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<i>Subject</i>: Re: [council] Draft Letter to the Board on Red Cross Names & Identifier
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<i>Thread-topic</i>: [council] Draft Letter to the Board on Red Cross Names & Identifier
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Dear Councilors,<br>
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Following further consultations between the Council chairs and staff on this <br>
matter, the chairs would like to provide the attached letter for your final <br>
review before it is sent to the ICANN Board. Essentially, this is the version <br>
suggested by the RySG (per Donna’s earlier note, below) but with a single </span>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">revision at the end of the second paragraph, to clarify that the GNSO’s IGO and
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Red Cross recommendations originated in a single PDP.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:MingLiU"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Please indicate any objections or concerns you may have with this proposed
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">final version of the letter to the Board by COB in your time zone on Monday 23
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">May if at all possible, following which we will transmit the final letter to
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the Board shortly thereafter on behalf of Donna, Heather, James and the Council.<br>
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Thanks and cheers<br>
Mary<br>
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Mary Wong<br>
Senior Policy Director<br>
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<br>
Email: mary.wong@xxxxxxxxx<br>
Telephone: +1-603-5744889<br>
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From: <owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of "Austin, Donna" <br>
<Donna.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxx><br>
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 05:44<br>
To: "council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx><br>
Subject: [council] Draft Letter to the Board on Red Cross Names & Identifier<br>
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James, all<br>
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Following on from the discussion on the Council call yesterday about next steps <br>
in resolving the issue of permanent protection of certain Red Cross <br>
identifiers, the RySG has requested that the letter to the Board be amended to <br>
request an update/resolution of the outstanding issues related to the permanent <br>
protection of certain Red Cross identifiers and IGO acronyms. These issues have <br>
not previously been decoupled and we are concerned that if the Council suggests <br>
this as a path forward at this point it may be at the expense of resolving the <br>
remaining issues associated with IGO acronyms.<br>
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Proposed amendments to the letter are provided for consideration.<br>
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Thanks<br>
<br>
Donna<br>
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Donna Austin: Neustar, Inc.<br>
Policy and Industry Affairs Manager<br>
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