[ALAC] Revision of IGO/INGO Protections statement
Holly Raiche
h.raiche at internode.on.net
Thu Jan 10 06:38:39 UTC 2013
Hi Alan
First, a thank you for all your work on this.
I am happy with the changes you have made 9as per the redline version)
I also like your idea of a preamble. We should, representing users be pointing to the implications of what is being proposed - and global blocking of specific names is something that should not be done lightly. So yes - specifically ask what harms are being prevented.
Holly
On 10/01/2013, at 5:09 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
> After reviewing the paper submitted by Jovan Kurbalija
> (http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac/2013/002781.html), I
> have made a number of revisions to the draft ALAC statement at
> https://community.icann.org/x/5IFQAg.
>
> The changes cover the following issues:
>
> 1. Make it explicit that we want IGOs and INGOs to be given special
> protection only after a careful evaluation of their specific issues
> and needs. This was already implied by our specifying that they had
> to demonstrate need and to meet a number of other criteria.
>
> 2. We had already said that some of the suggested IOC protections
> were over broad because they propose a world-wide Internet blocking
> of a name that might have previously been protected in a only small
> number of countries. A new paragraph generalized that to IGOs
> pointing out that an IGO can exist with only three countries signing
> a treaty, and that is not sufficient for requesting global protection.
>
> 3. Jovan's paper had reasonably included that a rationale for
> requesting protection could be that some entity could do an
> organization great harm and thus endanger the public interest by
> using their name in a domain name. We had only included user-related
> issues, so I added this one as well. It is not likely to have many
> real applications, but is a reasonable addition.
>
> The rest of the statement, in my opinion, is generally in line with
> Jovan's recommendations. If others feel differently, please let us
> know your concerns. Due to time constraints, I have not reviewed
> these changes with Evan, but have no doubt he will speak up if he has
> a problem with any of them.
>
> A Redline PDF is attached to the Wiki page so you can see the exact changes.
>
> One more thing that I have thought of doing but would welcome input
> on, is to add a preamble saying that these "special protections" are
> in effect global blocking of specific names, a concept that ICANN and
> the Internet has generally avoided, and specifically has refused when
> requested by the IP and Business communities. If ICANN if going to
> offer such protections to IGOs and INGOs, we need to make sure that
> there are real harms if we do not do so, and that the protections
> will in fact prohibit such harms.
>
> As it stands now, we have little evidence of such harms, particularly
> for IGOs, and we have little evidence that protecting exact matches
> only will be of significant help.
>
> Alan
>
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