On 03-11-16 12:19, Vanda Scartezini wrote:
I am in favor to have such names of International, recognized by UN, but it needs to be quite clear – role, recognition of the work etc , or all NGO in the world would like to have similar privilege and this will be impossible.
I don't think any of us have any real issue with this as such. This whole "war" is not about whether we want protections for the names of those organisations or not, but how to go about achieving it. There is an official process for it in ICANN - the GNSO PDP. Some people/ organisations/governments seem to want to use their position to circumvent or shortcut that process, but what they forget is that ICANN, and the relation between ICANN and registrars and registries is based on formal agreements about Consensus Policies. What GAC needs to understand is that no matter how much they stomp their feet and threaten to throw their toys out of the pram, only GNSO PDPs followed to the letter of GNSO Operating Procedures have binding effect. Julf