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RE: [gnso-igo-ingo] ICRC/IFRC Letter to ICANN Board

  • To: "Shatan, Gregory S." <GShatan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Berry Cobb'" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx" <gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [gnso-igo-ingo] ICRC/IFRC Letter to ICANN Board
  • From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:52:07 -0400

As I read it, to date, the Board has granted provisional protection pending GNSO recommendations (which would then have to be approved by the Board). They are asking for permanent protection meaning the they are requiring the Board to guarantee at this point that they would not never approve a GNSO Consensus Policy which reduces such protection. They are also adding national 189 national names in multiple languages, and strings-contained and confusingly similar protection at both the top and 2nd level.

Certainly problematic at several levels. I find it hard for a Board to guarantee how they will act to an unknown action in the future, and it is difficult to imagine how to implement the wide-ranging variable name 2nd level protection that is being requested.

Alan


At 14/07/2013 06:03 PM, Shatan, Gregory S. wrote:

I’m having some trouble reconciling this letter with the PDP, our WG’s work and the GNSO’s role in policy development. Perhaps that’s because they cannot be reconciled? I note that virtually the only mention of our WG is a somewhat peculiar reference to our preliminary report (which they state arrived as their paper was being “finalised,” as if the ICRC was not participating in the WG) and their public comment in response thereto.

I suppose we now have 3 “parallel processes,” to paraphrase Heather Dryden.

I think we are in danger of being overtaken by events, unless we believe that events can thereafter be overtaken by us (and that a recommendation by the GNSO to do so would survive a Board vote).

Greg


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From: owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Berry Cobb
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 7:22 AM
To: gnso-igo-ingo@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-igo-ingo] ICRC/IFRC Letter to ICANN Board

WG Members,

FYI, a letter from the International Committee of the Red Cross was sent to the ICANN Board and is now posted on icann.org.

<http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/daccord-gelata-to-atallah-et-al-10jul13-en>http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/daccord-gelata-to-atallah-et-al-10jul13-en

Thank you.

B

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