FYI.   Please circulate amongst your constituencies, stakeholder groups and Advisory Committees. 

Heather, Mark and Suzanne,

As promised, please find enclosed a status report from the Chair of the IOC/RC Drafting Team of the GNSO Council that has been tasked with advising the GNSO Council with respect to the September 2011 GAC proposal on permanently protecting the Olympic and Red Cross names at the top and second levels for new gTLDs.  Although this report was shared with the members of the Drafting Team, it was drafted by me as the Chair, and as such is not an official report from the Drafting Team.  It represents the Chair’s current understanding of the discussions of the Drafting Team.  Each of the recommendations addressed in this report are still under review by the GNSO Community.  We are providing this report to assist in the discussions between the Drafting Team, interested GNSO Councilors and GAC members on March 2, 2012.

Please feel free to forward this report to the other members of the GAC as I will be sending this to the GNSO Council as well.  We look forward to a productive call this Friday as well as in Costa Rica at the ICANN meeting. 

Best regards,

Jeffrey J. Neuman
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs
21575 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA 20166
Office: +1.571.434.5772  Mobile: +1.202.549.5079  Fax: +1.703.738.7965 / jeff.neuman@neustar.biz  / www.neustar.biz