[council] Final Issue Report on IGO & INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms

[Mary Wong]

Dear all,

Please find attached for your consideration the Final Issue Report on
amending the UDRP and URS to enable IGO and INGO access to curative rights
protection mechanisms. You will recall that the Council requested an Issue
Report on the topic at the Buenos Aires meeting in November 2013 when it
adopted the consensus recommendations from the PDP WG on Protection of
International Organization Identifiers in All gTLDs (IGO-INGO PDP WG). Under
the ICANN Bylaws, an Issue Report is a mandatory preceding step to a
possible PDP that is initiated by the GNSO Council. The Preliminary Issue
Report was published for public comment on 10 March 2014, with the reply
period of the forum closing on 6 May 2014. A Report of Public Comments
received was published on 16 May 2014.

In preparing this Final Issue Report, all the public comments received were
analyzed and, where relevant, incorporated into the Final Issue Report. The
Report of Public Comments has also been added as a separate Annex.

Essentially, the staff recommendation is that the Council initiate a PDP to
consider: (1) whether the UDPR and/or URS should be amended for IGO and INGO
access and use; and (2) if so, in what way or whether a separate, narrowly
tailored procedure modeled on these measures, to apply specifically only to
IGOs and INGOs, should be developed. Staff also recommends that the PDP be
limited to considering only those IGO and INGO identifiers that the original
IGO-INGO PDP WG recommended for protection, and the Final Issue Report
outlines a number of specific issues and additional considerations for the
Council to review in determining the scope and work of the PDP.

The relevant motions are currently in preparation for proposal by a GNSO
Councilor.

The public comment forum, including a link to the Report of Public Comments,
the Preliminary Issue Report and the Final Report of the IGO-INGO PDP WG can
be found here: 
https://www.icann.org/public-comments/igo-ingo-crp-prelim-2014-03-10-en.

Thanks and cheers
Mary

Mary Wong
Senior Policy Director
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN)
Telephone: +1 603 574 4892
Email: mary.wong at icann.org

* One World. One Internet. *


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