This June 2016 letter from the UN General Secretary is addressed to foreign ministers of UN member states and seeks their assistance in having ICANN grant permanent protections to prevent the names or acronyms of IGOs from being registered at the second level of the DNS. That matter has been addressed recently in regard to the names, but not the acronyms, of certain IGOs. I hereby request that staff provide a link to the recent GNSO Council resolution on this matter. The Secretary General’s letter does not directly address the issue that we have been grappling with – assuring IGO access to effective and low-cost curative DRP mechanisms when a name or acronym that is identical or confusingly similar to its own has been registered as a domain and is being used in bad faith. Hence, in my personal opinion, the only relevance of this letter to our work is its emphasis on the important public services provided by IGOs, and I believe that the members of our WG are already well acquainted with and respectful of that valuable role. Best to all, Philip Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/Cell Twitter: @VlawDC "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey From: gnso-igo-ingo-crp-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-igo-ingo-crp-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Mary Wong Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 11:20 AM To: Paul Tattersfield; gnso-igo-ingo-. Subject: Re: [Gnso-igo-ingo-crp] [Ext] Letter from Ban Ki-moon to foreign minsters of the United Nations member states Dear Paul and everyone, With apologies again for the delay, attached please find a copy of the letter from the UN Secretary General from June 2016. When this topic first surfaced in our Working Group, Petter and Phil were alerted to the letter and reviewed it as well. Thanks and cheers Mary From: Paul Tattersfield <gpmgroup@gmail.com<mailto:gpmgroup@gmail.com>> Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 20:19 To: Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org<mailto:mary.wong@icann.org>>, "gnso-igo-ingo-." <gnso-igo-ingo-crp@icann.org<mailto:gnso-igo-ingo-crp@icann.org>> Subject: [Ext] Letter from Ban Ki-moon to foreign minsters of the United Nations member states Hi Mary, In the Adobe Chat last week you said you would circulrize a letter refferenced by Brian at Hyderabad 57 from the UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon to foreign ministers of the United Nations member states. If you have a moment please could you send it out before this week's meeting? Many thanks & kind regards, Paul