[ALAC] Public Comment on Red Cross national names

Wed Jul 18 10:43:07 UTC 2018

I also agree with the statement
Holly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Hilyard" 
To:"Bastiaan Goslings" 
Cc:"ALAC" , "Alan Greenberg" 
Sent:Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:29:02 -1000
Subject:Re: [ALAC] Public Comment on Red Cross national names

I agree with Bastiaan and Tijani

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:51 PM, Bastiaan Goslings  wrote:
thanks, I too support this draft statement: it’s nice and succinct

 -Bastiaan

 > On 18 Jul 2018, at 09:11, Tijani BEN JEMAA  wrote:
 > 
 > Thank you Alan; I support this statement.
 > 
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 > Tijani BEN JEMAA
 > Executive Director
 > Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
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 > 
 >> Le 18 juil. 2018 à 03:37, Alan Greenberg  a écrit :
 >> 
 >> The PC at https://community.icann.org/x/GoRHBQ [4] 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
 >> 
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 >> 
 >> 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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