[ALAC] Public Comment on Red Cross national names

Eduardo Diaz eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 13:24:04 UTC 2018


I would change the part that says *"...should be afforded the courtesy of
having its various identifiers..."*  to *"...should be afforded its various
identifiers..."*

-ed


On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 12:03 AM Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> The PC at https://community.icann.org/x/GoRHBQ is addressing a set of
> recommendations to protect at the second level the names of the various
> national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
>
> I was an active member of the original Red Cross name PDP. The national
> names were not protected at that time for a number of reasons, largely
> technicalities. This PDP modification process was convened to attempt to
> correct the process. I also joined the reconvened WG, but stopped attending
> after three meetings, largely due to the slowness of the deliberations, but
> I did keep an eye on the mailing list.
>
> The bottom line is that the reconvened PDP is recommending that the
> country names be protected.
>
> In reality, I do not believe that this issue is really substantive in that
> fraudulent activity can still occur using minor modification of the names.
> But I believe that we should support it because it is significant example
> of ICANN addressing an issue with global public interest implications. In
> particular, one of the arguments against reserving these names in the past
> has been that by doing so, we are impacting freedom of speech -
> specifically not allowing other parties to use these names. Since these
> names are in fact protected by law in each jurisdiction, I personally
> believe that this argument has little merit.
>
> I am reproducing the statement below for your convenience.
>
> Alan
>
> ========
>
> The ALAC appreciates the opportunity to comment on the
>
> *Initial Report on the Protections for Certain Red Cross Names in all
> gTLDs – Policy Amendment Process. *The ALAC has always taken the position
> that as a humanitarian organization, and one that has been regularly the
> target of those seeking to fraudulently attract donations, the Red Cross
> should be afforded the courtesy of having its various identifiers protected
> at the second level in gTLD domain names.
>
> The current process recommends additional protection in this area and the
> recommendations are supported by the ALAC.
>
>
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