OAS Comment - Protection of IGO and INGO identifiers in All gTLDs (PDP) Recommendations for Board Consideration

["Perez, Lorena" <LPerez@xxxxxxx>]

The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) agrees 
with the comment posted by the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations 
(UN) regarding the recent IGO-INGO Identifier Protection recommendations 
adopted by the GNSO Council (the recommendations). By refusing to protect IGO 
acronyms, the recommendations inadequately protect the names and acronyms of 
inter-governmental organizations, in that other entities would be able to use 
the OAS acronyms to mislead internet users and potentially harm OAS' reputation 
(and conceivably ICANN's as well).  The OAS agrees with the UN's position 
regarding the creation of a preventative mechanism -not subject to the 
jurisdiction of national courts- that would allow for the reallocation of 
reserved domain names when applicable, as opposed to reserving the OAS acronyms 
without any possibility of reconsideration.  Thus, the OAS urges ICANN to adopt 
a policy that will protect the OAS' acronyms and not just the OAS' names, in 
the same manner it protects the International Olympic Committee and the 
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Respectfully,

Lorena Pérez, Esq.
Department of Legal Services
General Secretariat, Organization of American States
19th & Constitution Avenues, N.W. ADM-223
Washington, D.C. 20006
T. 202.370.0626 - PLEASE NOTE NUMBER CHANGE
F. 202.458.3410
lperez@xxxxxxx<mailto:lperez@xxxxxxx>
www.oas.org

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