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

[Thomas Rickert <rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kiran, 
understood. 

Claudia, can you put your suggestions into the spreadsheet? 

If not, may I ask Berry to incude them in the spreadsheet so that he group has 
as many criteria in the document as habe been proposed?

Thanks,
Thomas

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Am 18.12.2012 um 22:42 schrieb Kiran Malancharuvil <kmalancharuvil@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Thomas and all,
>  
> We are happy to work on and explore these additional lists of criteria.  With 
> the holidays coming up, many members of our group will be out of the office, 
> starting this week.  Because of that, we can’t explore, research and present 
> these additional 15 items by tomorrow, nor can we commit to any specific time 
> during the holidays.  
>  
> Thanks,
> 
> Kiran
>  
>  
> From: Thomas Rickert [mailto:rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:26 PM
> To: Claudia MACMASTER TAMARIT
> Cc: Kiran Malancharuvil; gnso-igo-ingo-qc@xxxxxxxxx; Jim Bikoff; David Heasley
> Subject: Re: [gnso-igo-ingo-qc] RE: Qualification Group - Initial Draft - 
> Please Comment
>  
> Group members,
> thanks Kiran for sending the first version of the spreadsheet and Claudia for 
> your additional remarks.
>  
> You are right, all arguments and proposed criteria should to into the 
> spreadsheet to make it easier for the group to determine where it wants to 
> go. 
>  
> I recollect that Evan also submitted criteria earlier to the list. I have 
> copied those below:
>  
> What is the charitable status of the organization in the countries in which 
> it operates?
> What is the current incidence of fraudulent or misleading domains related to 
> the organization?
> Does the organization work and communicate directly to the public, or rather 
> through affiliates, governments and partners?
> Does the organization, or its subsidiaries, engage in ad-hoc domain creation 
> to deal with unforeseen needs (ie, disaster relief)
> Does the organiozation currently use a domain under .int?
>  
>  
> May I ask you to try to put them (maybe rephrased to make it fit) into the 
> spreadsheet and fill out the spreadsheet. I am sure that we will then have 
> quite a good basis for our discussion tomorrow.
>  
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>  
>  
> Am 18.12.2012 um 20:33 schrieb "Claudia  MACMASTER TAMARIT" 
> <MACMASTER@xxxxxxx>:
> 
> 
> 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
>  
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