On 2 Feb 2012, at 14:30, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Should ALAC have a stance on the TLD reservation of the Red Cross and Olympic terms?
Personally, I think they should be handled differently. I have no problem with the Red [Cross|Crescent|Diamond] names (and their multilingual and IDN equivalents) being reserved because these are groups that do charitable work and collect funds for relief of famines, natural disasters and other emergencies.
OTOH, The international olympic movement, while non-profit, does not collect emergency funds in the same way as the Red Cross. Furthermore, I have seen olympic committees in various countries aggressively shut down innocent users (like family-run Greek restaurants using "Olympic" in their name) that are neither competing nor confusing with the athletic organization.
(How soon before they go after the largest Greek airline?)
In any case, my own preference is to support reservation of the Red Cross names but oppose similar protection offered to Olympic ones (and allow contentious applications to be objected to in the appropriate way as required).
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