All,
 
On behalf of the IOC/RCRC Drafting Team, I am pleased to present the following motion which was supported by the Drafting Team.  For the record, I will note that the recommendations were not supported by the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group and Thomas Rickert, but were supported by the Registries Stakeholder Group, the, Intellectual Property Constituency, Business Constituency and ISP Constituency, the representative from the ALAC, and those representatives from the International Olympic Committee and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.  The Registrars Stakeholder group did not participate on the Drafting Team.
 
Thanks.
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MOTION TO RECOMMEND PROTECTIONS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF NEW GTLDS FOR CERTAIN RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT (RCRC) AND INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) NAMES
 
Made by: Jeff Neuman
Seconded by:
 
WHEREAS:
 
The Board Resolution 2011.06.20.01, authorized ?the President and CEO to implement the new gTLD program which includes . . . incorporation of text concerning protection for specific requested Red Cross and IOC names for the top level only during the initial application round, until the GNSO and GAC develop policy advice based on the global public interest, . . ." ( http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-20jun11-en.htm )
 
The IOC/RC Drafting Team established [Date] by the GNSO Council has considered a number of different options with respect to protections of both the IOC and the RCRC terms in response to the GAC proposal to provide permanent protection for such terms including at the second level in new gTLDS;
 
The solution proposed by the IOC/RC Drafting Team, to initiate a PDP and to provide temporary reservation of the exact match IOC/RC names, was posted for public comment on 28 September 2012 and closed on 9 November 2012;
 
The GNSO has now [Date] initiated a policy development process (PDP) to evaluate possible protections for certain international organization names in all gTLDs, including, specifically, whether to recommend policies to protect IOC/RCRC names; and
 
Therefore, the IOC/RC Drafting Team recommends that the GNSO Council recommend to the Board that it adopt the second recommendation of the IOC/RC Drafting Team, providing for temporary reservation of the exact match IOC/RC names,  prior to the delegation of the first round of new gTLDs.
 
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
 
That the GNSO Council adopts the IOC/RC Drafting Team?s recommendation to temporarily reserve the exact match of IOC and RCRC second level domain names listed in Section 2.2.1.2.3 of the Applicant Guidebook and per the GAC recommendation of 14 September 2011pending the outcome of the recently launched policy development process involving International Governmental and Non-governmental Organizations.
 
That the GNSO Council thanks the members of the IOC/RC Drafting Team for their efforts in producing these recommendations, and hereby disbands the IOC/RC Drafting Team; and
 
That the Chair of the GNSO Council is authorized to forward these recommendations to the ICANN Board.
 
 
Jeffrey J. Neuman
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