[Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] Follow up from our WG meeting earlier today

[Mary Wong]

Dear WG members,

This is to follow up on the ³action items² stemming from and certain WG
questions raised on the WG call earlier today relating to IGO and INGO
statistics.

I. Action Items:

The following WG members have signed up for the three sub-groups identified
in the Work Plan:
> A - Petter Rindforth. Kristine Dorrain. Jim Bikoff
> B - Phil Corwin, Paul Keating, George Kirikos, Imran Ahmed Shah
> C- None so far
> 

Please sign up for one of the three Sub-Groups by emailing me by Friday 19
September if at all possible (refer to the Summary Extract of the Work Plan
for a description of each Sub-Group: https://community.icann.org/x/9brhAg).
Staff will compile the list before our next meeting for review by the WG
Co-Chairs. As noted on the call, Sub-Groups are expected to discuss how they
wish to achieve the aims set out in the Work Plan, and formal meetings and
recordings are generally not arranged. Of course, Sub-Groups may request
ICANN staff assistance with setting up calls, as well as facilitating their
research and information gathering, such as liaising with ICANN General
Counsel and providing information as to whether there are resources
available to support a particular form of research for which a fee is
charged by the third party from whom information is being sought. We can
also set up wiki pages for each Sub-Group to record and edit its work, if
desired.


II. Follow Up Questions
 
(1) On what is an ³international organization², or more specifically, an
³international governmental organization² or IGO:
* The GAC¹s approved list of IGOs that was sent to the Board in March 2013,
and which was the list upon which our predecessor WG based its
recommendations, defines these as: ³(a) an international organization
established by a treaty and which possesses international legal personality;
or (b) an ³Intergovernmental organization² having received a standing
invitation to participate as observer in the sessions and the work of the
United Nations General Assembly; or (c) a distinct entity, organ or program
of the United Nations.²
* Note that although the term is not defined in the Paris Convention,
Article 6ter refers to an international intergovernmental organization of
which at least one WIPO Member State is a member ­ and the adoption of the
Paris Convention by the World Trade Organization (WTO) via the 1994
Trade-Related Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) means that
this now extends to all WTO member countries regardless of whether they also
joined the Paris Convention.
(2) On how many IGOs are on the GAC list of March 2013:
* The GAC list contains 192 organizations (see list attached.)
* Although the updated number of IGOs who have submitted notifications for
protection under Article 6ter is not known to ICANN staff at the moment, a
2005 paper prepared by the WIPO Secretariat noted that by 31 August 2005,
118 IGOs had submitted notifications under Article 6ter. This was updated to
138 in 2007, divided as follows:
>> 24 flags
>> 290 emblems
>> 288 abbreviations
>> 578 names
* As noted on the WG call, the scope of our WG is limited to the GAC list,
as that was the scope of the recommendations ultimately adopted by our
predecessor PDP WG.
(3) On how many NGOs are on the ECOSOC list:
* As of September 2013, 3900 NGOs have Consultative Status with ECOSOC, of
which only 144 have attained General Consultative Status, with the others
mostly given Special Consultative Status or Roster status (see attached
list). Those organizations with General Consultative Status are considered
to be those with the closest and most substantive contributions to and
connections with the economic and social objectives of the UN and ECOSOC.
* Our predecessor WG distinguished between the INGOs with General
Consultative Status and those with Special Consultative Status, with
differing protections recommended for each. They did not, however, include
any direction to either the GNSO Council or our present WG as to whether the
distinction should be maintained for curative rights protection.
We hope the above is helpful. We have added the attached documents to the
WG¹s wiki space under Background Documents as well.

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





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