[Npoc-discuss] Fwd: [council] Statement on Red Cross names - methodology and implementation - from Mason Cole

Carlos Raul Gutierrez crg at isoc-cr.org
Wed Nov 1 13:19:21 UTC 2017


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Carlos Raúl GUTIERREZ
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From: "Mary Wong" <mary.wong at icann.org>
Date: Nov 1, 2017 3:43 PM
Subject: [council] Statement on Red Cross names - methodology and
implementation - from Mason Cole
To: "council at gnso.icann.org" <council at gnso.icann.org>
Cc:

Dear Councilors,



Please find below the full text of Mason’s statement that he read at the
Open Mic earlier in this meeting.



Thanks and cheers,

Mary



*From: *Mason Cole <mason at donuts.email>
*Date: *Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 15:18
*To: *Mary Wong <mary.wong at icann.org>
*Subject: *[Ext] Statement



As a member of the IGO/INGO working group, I’d like to raise two concerns.



The first regards the methodology around development of the list of Red
Cross names that are to be reserved.  The proposal is that “exact match”
names of the organizations be reserved, as well as what are known as
“common names.”  For example — the American Red Cross Society as an exact
name, and the American Red Cross or The Red Cross as common names.  And as
you know, each name is to be reserved in multiple configurations of
language and IDN.



There is a concern that there will be claims to what are termed common
names far beyond what was initially speculated.  There’s no criteria or
standard for identifying a common name, so one presumably relies on the
word of each provider.  However, that opens the door to potentially
exponential multiplication of the name list that may not be warranted in
all cases.  Or it could lead an organization to claim that an acronym
constitutes a common name.  The GNSO obviously supports the effort around
formal names, as they’re unquestionable identifiers, but there should be
concern about opening the process to numerous and potentially less
unquestionably linked common names or acronyms.



The second concern is the methodology for adding the names of new societies
to the reserved list.  The current proposal is that once a Red Cross
organization is chartered, the GAC can make a request directly to ICANN
staff for inclusion of that name on the list.  Staff presumably would then
notify GDD, who would instruct contracted parties to accommodate the new
names.  This is alarming on several fronts.  1) It impacts our contracts.
 2) It puts the GAC in a position to instruct staff directly with regard to
policy, with no GNSO involvement.  3) There’s little incentive for the GAC
to withhold more from its wish list in such a scenario.  It would be much
more preferable for the GNSO to be part of the process on policy that
eventually impacts our contracts.



I believe the GAC, in its communique, reaffirm its Durban advice that Red
Cross and IGO acronyms should be reserved permanently.  So I urge the
council to carefully consider these matters in the context of the Red Cross
and IGO names.



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