RE: [gnso-igo-ingo] Update to Proposal Document

[Kiran Malancharuvil <kmalancharuvil@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,
As we discussed in the last Working Group teleconference, Thomas's overview in 
models Alpha and Bravo is quite useful.
They state a rationale that flows into qualification criteria, which are then 
applied to organizations on a case-by-case basis .
They can be unified into one model.
Model Alpha:
Rationale--
Our goal is to protect:
Organizations that serve the global public interest, that are international in 
scope and operations, and whose primary mission is of such public importance 
that some form of special protection for its name and acronym can be justified.
This statement of the rationale, as drafted by Mary Wong, could be slightly 
revised as follows:
Our goal is to protect:
Organizations that are international in scope and operations, that serve the 
global public interest, and whose primary mission is of such public importance 
that they receive multilateral or multinational recognition and some form of 
special protection for their names and acronyms can be justified.
(This revision, with language from model Bravo, uses the word "recognition," 
which is appropriate for a general statement of rationale, instead of the 
objective term "protection," which is more appropriate for qualification 
criteria.)
Qualification Criteria
Meeting the following criteria is deemed to be sufficient evidence of the above 
requirements for an organization to be eligible for protections. The protection 
encompasses the name and the acronym of the respective organization as well as 
designations that - as the case may be - are explicitly mentioned in a treaty 
as a protected designation.

§  International in scope and operations, and

§  Primary mission of such importance to the public interest

§  That it receives multilateral or multinational protection,   such as:

·         Protection by treaty; or

·         Protection in multiple national jurisdictions; or

·         Inclusion in the Ecosoc list;



§  And that some form of special protection for its name and acronym can be 
justified.
(This last criterion allows an organization to state reasons for special 
protection that are not covered by the criteria above it. For example, the 
International Olympic Committee could state that it has the support of the GAC 
and the prolonged consideration of the IOC/RCRC Drafting Team. It could further 
state that special protection is justified because it already experiences 
hundreds of unauthorized second-level domain name registrations monthly in the 
current TLDs, and this number would undoubtedly escalate exponentially in the 
new TLDs, outstripping ordinary RPMs.)
Thomas's amalgamation of criteria for the IOC, RC/RC, IGOs and INGOs would 
permit the listing of the specific reasons satisfying the criteria and the 
rationale.
If this version of model Alpha is acceptable, it could obviate the necessity 
for model Bravo, below.
Model Bravo:
Striving to get to is a minimum standard to qualify for special protections (of 
whatever nature), and that many of those that have been suggested already, e.g. 
treaties, national laws, organizational mandates etc., are a form of proxy for 
the vague concept that:

"an organization [must] be



§  international in scope and operations, and

§  its primary mission be of such public importance

§  that it receives multilateral or multinational protection beyond ordinary 
trademark laws, and

§  that some form of special protection for its name and acronym can be 
justified."


Regards,
Jim, David, and Kiran

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[mailto:owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Berry Cobb
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:03 PM
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Subject: [gnso-igo-ingo] Update to Proposal Document
Team,

Attached is version 0.2 of the Qualification Criteria Model proposals with 
history.  In review of the Final Issue Report for IGO-INGO, a section documents 
proposals created leading up to the formation of this WG.  I appended these 
proposals within this tracking document.

Thank you.  B

Berry Cobb
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