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[gnso-igo-ingo-qc] RE: Qualification Group - Initial Draft - Please Comment

  • To: Kiran Malancharuvil <kmalancharuvil@xxxxxxxxx>, "gnso-igo-ingo-qc@xxxxxxxxx" <gnso-igo-ingo-qc@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [gnso-igo-ingo-qc] RE: Qualification Group - Initial Draft - Please Comment
  • From: "Claudia MACMASTER TAMARIT" <MACMASTER@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:33:48 +0000

Dear all,

First, may I suggest we add other criteria to this worksheet?   At the moment, 
the excel chart gives the impression that we are only considering 5 criteria 
(protection by treaty, protection by national law, protection in 30 
jurisdictions, serving the public good, and whether the organization can use 
RPMS).

These criteria (if cumulative) express a bias towards narrowing the eligibility 
pool dramatically without any defined objective justification for any 
protection in domain names.  It seems they are tailored to protect only certain 
(in many cases already-identified) organizations without objective 
justification.

If the aim is to protect organizations that receive legal protections in order 
to carry out recognized public good, I strongly urge the group to add other 
criteria which do not instantly single out certain organizations, such as the 
following (as previously suggested);


1.       Number of member countries in the international organization;

2.       Percentage of governmental or public members in the international 
organization;

3.       Number of countries in which the international organization has 
operations or provides services and/or products;

4.       Nature and impact of work, services and/or products on an 
international level;

5.       Nature and extent of collaborations with governments and other 
international organizations;

6.       Status of international organization under international and/or 
domestic law;

7.       Duration of international organization's existence;

8.       Status of the international organization as a non-profit institution 
and/or operating in the public interest;

9.       Recognition/use of name or acronym with/by the international 
organization;

10.   Number and extent of existing abusive domain name registrations relating 
to the name or acronym.
Obviously these criteria can be subject to debate, which I believe is the 
purpose of this worksheet.

I also object to collapsing the columns under "Connection of Identified Harm to 
the National Law" in the first row under the headers.  This does not allow for 
comments regarding any thoughts to the connection between the aspect of any 
organization protected under treaty law and protection as a second and first 
level domain, e.g., should protection of the graphical representation of the 
Olympic rings mean protection of particular text on the second or first level.

Several other comments are included in the attached.  I apologize for the 
brevity of my comments, and look forward to tomorrow's discussion.

Sincerely,
Claudia


From: owner-gnso-igo-ingo-qc@xxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:owner-gnso-igo-ingo-qc@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kiran Malancharuvil
Sent: 2012-12-17 22:39
To: gnso-igo-ingo-qc@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jim Bikoff; David Heasley; Thomas Rickert (rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: [gnso-igo-ingo-qc] Qualification Group - Initial Draft - Please Comment

Dear Qualification Criteria Group Members,

Please find an initial draft of our group spreadsheet.  We've completed a large 
part of this form, and made some changes to the format to account for the 
unique protections provided to each entity.  Please provide comments, 
especially with respect to fields left blank, by close of business on Tuesday, 
December 18, 2012 (EST) so we can forward the draft to the group.

As this is the first group email, please confirm receipt.

Thank you for your input!

Best regards,

Jim, David and Kiran

Kiran J. Malancharuvil
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