Hi, As all PICs are just first drafts for discussion, I find this PIC quite promising and expect that it can be negotiated with the GAC and other interested parties. In terms of .health and WHO, I do not see in what way WHO represents a community. And what we are discussing here in a Community Objection. Sure they are an IGO that would like to have a word they want to be protected, but that is not what a Community Objection is about. That is more a matter for the IGO/INGO Working Group. avri On 6 Mar 2013, at 13:20, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
My careful reading shows no indication that the text of the PIC has been communicated to any endorsing third party. This seems at odds with the claim that the policy is the product of three and a half years of extensive efforts and great care, but perhaps outreach to third party agencies is not the ordinary business practice of Mr. Weissberg's entity. I've no way of knowing, but I was looking for the endorsements of the text by parties other than the beneficiary applicant.
The following, which appears as "Other Specific Public Interest Committments (Spwcification 11, Paragraph 3), I find interesting.
Commitment to the Protection of the World Health Organization Names and/or Acronyms
DotHealth, LLC shall commit to consult with the World Health Organization on the protection of appropriate second level domain names within the .health TLD in order to withhold their use by any third party where such protection is deemed to be in the public interest.
Mr. Weissberg does not inform the reader if the World Health Organization is even cognizant of this commitment.
Nor is the reader informed specifically as to the modality of this consultation with the World Health Organization.
Nor is the reader informed specifically how, and by whom, the public interest evaluation of third party registrations is to be effected.
In my opinion this PIC does not rise to the level of prudence and care likely to (a) permit effective community policy formation or (b) prevent the most likely forms of abuse.
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