[ALAC] Red Cross/IOC - Questions for Consensus Call - Reply due by September 26th

[Hong Xue]

> 5) Suggest an alternate robust method to protect non-trademarked
> public-interest names.
>

Under FAG, IOC, RC and any other IGOs can file as many objections as
possible based on their IGO legal rights against TLD applications
identical or confusingly similar to their name(s). But no DRP
mechanism available for IGO names against 2nd-level domain name
registration, and all protection measures at 2nd-level are for
trademark, which makes the IGO names' protection unbalance at
top-level and second-level. If a dispute resolution policy could be
developed to enable IGOs to complain against abusive registrations at
second level, it would be good idea. But I object to changing the
current policy at this round and setting out a priorly-reserved name
list, let alone merely singling out 2 IGOs for special treatment.

Hong

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Professor Dr. Hong Xue
Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL)
Beijing Normal University
http://www.iipl.org.cn/
19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street
Beijing 100875 China