Dear ALAC colleagues, At the CPWG call of 24 Sep, it was established that the ALAC/At-Large are supportive of the position that, very simply put, IGO/INGO Identifiers should be protected for the relevant IGO/INGO to apply if and when they choose to, and that this ability to apply should be preserved under all circumstances and certainly, not displaced by a third party's attempt to obtain a confusingly similar string. There is now an Option 3 being put before GNSO Council, and I plan to speak to this very briefly at today's CPWG call. In line with the ALAC position previously established and in anticipation of CPWG's reaction to Option 3, here is the draft that I am still working to shorten in time for the GNSO Council Extraordinary Meeting on 9 Oct at 13:00 UTC. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kjVLdF8zMiLDWkFJEo2wMPzvcmU9Ej30qMeO7yWJ... I am sharing this in advance with the ALAC, in case any of you have (immediate) input to provide. Due to the short turnaround time, I am asking, as I did on 24 Sep, for discretion to relay a version of the ALAC position to GNSO Council during the mentioned extraordinary meeting where a Council decision is expected. Thanks, *Justine Chew* At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) Liaison to the GNSO Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) At-Large website: https://atlarge.icann.org/ ------