[council] MOTION TO RECOMMEND PROTECTIONS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF NEW GTLDS FOR CERTAIN RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT (RCRC) AND INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) NAMES

Alan Greenberg alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Wed Nov 7 22:17:47 UTC 2012


To be clear, my support was on behalf of the ALAC and not solely my 
own. As I previously reported this was neither an easy nor unanimous 
decision for ALAC, but approval was given for the compromise position.

Alsn

At 07/11/2012 02:42 PM, Neuman, Jeff wrote:
>All,
>
>On behalf of the IOC/RCRC Drafting Team, I am pleased to present the 
>following motion which was supported by the Drafting Team.  For the 
>record, I will note that the recommendations were not supported by 
>the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group and Thomas Rickert, but were 
>supported by the Registries Stakeholder Group, the, Intellectual 
>Property Constituency, Business Constituency and ISP Constituency, 
>the representative from the ALAC, and those representatives from the 
>International Olympic Committee and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.  The 
>Registrars Stakeholder group did not participate on the Drafting Team.
>
>Thanks.
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>MOTION TO RECOMMEND PROTECTIONS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF NEW GTLDS FOR 
>CERTAIN RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT (RCRC) AND INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC 
>COMMITTEE (IOC) NAMES
>
>Made by: Jeff Neuman
>Seconded by:
>
>WHEREAS:
>
>The Board Resolution 2011.06.20.01, authorized "the President and 
>CEO to implement the new gTLD program which includes . . . 
>incorporation of text concerning protection for specific requested 
>Red Cross and IOC names for the top level only during the initial 
>application round, until the GNSO and GAC develop policy advice 
>based on the global public interest, . . ." 
>(<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-20jun11-en.htm>http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-20jun11-en.htm)
>
>The IOC/RC Drafting Team established [Date] by the GNSO Council has 
>considered a number of different options with respect to protections 
>of both the IOC and the RCRC terms in response to the GAC proposal 
>to provide permanent protection for such terms including at the 
>second level in new gTLDS;
>
>The solution proposed by the IOC/RC Drafting Team, to initiate a PDP 
>and to provide temporary reservation of the exact match IOC/RC 
>names, was posted for public comment on 28 September 2012 and closed 
>on 9 November 2012;
>
>The GNSO has now [Date] initiated a policy development process (PDP) 
>to evaluate possible protections for certain international 
>organization names in all gTLDs, including, specifically, whether to 
>recommend policies to protect IOC/RCRC names; and
>
>Therefore, the IOC/RC Drafting Team recommends that the GNSO Council 
>recommend to the Board that it adopt the second recommendation of 
>the IOC/RC Drafting Team, providing for temporary reservation of the 
>exact match IOC/RC names,  prior to the delegation of the first 
>round of new gTLDs.
>
>NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
>
>That the GNSO Council adopts the IOC/RC Drafting Team's 
>recommendation to temporarily reserve the exact match of IOC and 
>RCRC second level domain names listed in Section 2.2.1.2.3 of the 
>Applicant Guidebook and per the GAC recommendation of 14 September 
>2011pending the outcome of the recently launched policy development 
>process involving International Governmental and Non-governmental 
>Organizations.
>
>That the GNSO Council thanks the members of the IOC/RC Drafting Team 
>for their efforts in producing these recommendations, and hereby 
>disbands the IOC/RC Drafting Team; and
>
>That the Chair of the GNSO Council is authorized to forward these 
>recommendations to the ICANN Board.
>
>
>Jeffrey J. Neuman
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