I made a careful study on the legal status of both organizations, and find that both IOC and RC are actually international Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). So, if there could be a holistic solution (DRP or else), it should cover all International Organizations (IOs), including international NGOs and IGOs. If we stick to the term IGOs, it could be no solution for IOC or RC at all. Hong On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Hong Xue <hongxueipr@gmail.com> wrote:
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
-- 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
-- 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