[ALAC] First draft of comments on the IGO-INGO name protection WG report

[Alan Greenberg]

The first draft of a general comment and answers to the questions 
posed by the PDP WG has been posted to the Wiki at 
https://community.icann.org/x/hTR-Ag.

I worked on this with Evan, so he should be in agreement, but he has 
not yet gotten back to me with a formal "all ok" due to other issues 
and travel preparation. The statement is generally in line with 
previous ALAC statements on the issues, although the tone is a bit 
softer on the issue of top-level protection of names (but not 
acronyms), where we do not see the need for blocking protection, but 
in most cases, it would not cause harm either (with the exceptions 
clearly noted).

To fully understand the answers, you need to at least look at the 
full form of the questions at 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/igo-ingo-initial-response-form-20jun13-en.doc 
and preferably the entire report at 
http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/igo-ingo-initial-14jun13-en.pdf.

The comment period closes on 17 July.

Alan