[npoc] Re: [gnso-igo-ingo] International Legal Personality as a Qualification Criterion

[Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello and thanks Thomas,

The NPOC  proposal is for Qualification No. 3 ONLY as Qualification No. 1
(and 2) would exclude truly international organizations that are not
established by treaty. This would unduly favor the Public Sector
Stakeholder to the detriment of the Private and/or the Not-For-Profit
Stakeholder, as only governments can enter into treaties with other
governments. I feel this is essential to the robustness and balance of the
MS model at ICANN, although not everyone at ICANN currently agrees with the
importance of that.

The test of establishing that an organization has an independent
international legal personality (ILP) is extremely arduous to meet and
would therefore not trigger a lot of applications for special protection
(if that is an objective for some!). To refer to concrete but purely
hypothetical exemples, and for illustrative purposes only, The Nature
Conservancy or Conservation International may be able to prove that it
possesses an ILP, but my own organization for instance (CECI - a large
Canadian development NGO - see http://www.ceci.ca/) could not aspire to
possessing an ILP, let alone the almost infinite myriad of small and micro
NGOs in the world. This criteria has the advantage of closing the "flood
gates" for special protection application, but does favor the very large
INGOs with subtantial international ramifications (Same as the treaty
qualification though).

The reason NPOC supports this specific proposal is that it his part of its
vision to increase the relative involvement  of Civil Society in the DNS
and Internet Governance.

Of course, the other proposal that is not unpopular with some at NPOC is
the scenario of "protection for none or protection for all"...but that is
another discussion!!!!

Talk to you this afternoon...

Best, Alain

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Thomas Rickert <rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Alain,
> is the proposal you made identical to the eligibility criteria for .int
> registrations as described here?
>
> http://www.iana.org/domains/int/policy
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
> Am 10.01.2013 um 19:09 schrieb Alain Berranger <alain.berranger@xxxxxxxxx
> >:
>
> Thanks Berry, Dear IGO-INGO WG Colleagues,
>
> To follow up on my statement in front of GNSO Council in San José during
> ICANN 43 as well as my intervention on yesterday's WG call, I would like to
> suggest that this Working Group kindly consider that "Possess a justified
> and documented International Legal Personality" (or words of that nature)
> be one of the Qualification Criteria. Given what I believe is a very
> stringent criterion, it should be sufficient for the few organizations that
> would be able to demonstrate and document that status, but not necessary
> for most other applicants for special protection.
>
> Alain
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Berry Cobb <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
Member, Board of Directors, CECI,
http://www.ceci.ca<http://www.ceci.ca/en/about-ceci/team/board-of-directors/>
Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca
Treasurer, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, www.gkpfoundation.org
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Chair, NPOC, NCSG, ICANN, http://npoc.org/
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