For that purpose they need not come to ICANN for protection; they already have the tools they need - digital certificates from the established certificate authorities around the world.
This is an impressively disingenuous argument. I have a couple of dozen certificates on my web and mail servers, and they say no more than that the entity proffering the certificate is the same one that passed a trivial test to see that it controlled a domain name or web server. If I registered WORLD-HEALTH-ORGANIZATION.ORG (it's available) it would take about two minutes to get a 100% valid Let's Encrypt TLS certificate with a 100% valid certificate chain. But it wouldn't mean I was the WHO. Barry is wrong, IGO names are not trademarks because they're not used to identify goods or services used in commerce. But I think they do merit protection similar to that provided to trademarks. As others have noted, it's not surprising that the IGOs and their government sponsors are not eager for a rerun of the same process that blew them off last time. So since what they want is at worst harmless to the at-large users, just give it to them. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly