Introduction
The following individuals composed an initial draft of this Statement [PDF, 84 KB] after discussion of the topic within At-Large and on the Mailing Lists:
- Alan Greenberg, ALAC member from the North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO), ALAC Executive Committee member, and ALAC Liaison to the GNSO; and
- Evan Leibovitch, ALAC member from the North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) and ALAC Executive Committee Vice-Chair
On 9 July 2013, this Statement was posted on the At-Large Initial Report on Protection of IGO and INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs Workspace.
On that same day, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC, requested ICANN Policy Staff in support of the ALAC to send a Call for Comments on the draft Statement to all At-Large members via the ALAC Announce Mailing List.
On 18 July 2013, this Statement was discussed in the ALAC & Regional Leadership Wrap-up Meeting. During that meeting, the draft Statement was discussed by all present At-Large members, as well as those participating via Remote Participation.
The Chair of the ALAC then requested that a ratification vote be held on the Statement. Staff then confirmed that the vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with 9 votes in favor, 0 votes against, and 0 abstentions.
You may review the result independently under: https://community.icann.org/x/7FB-Ag
The Chair then requested that the Statement be transmitted to the Public Comment process, copying the ICANN Staff member responsible for this Public Comment topic.
Summary
- The ALAC strongly supports the protection of Red Cross/Red Crescent names.
- The ALAC does not see the need for protecting the IOC names, but in particular objects to unilaterally protecting strings (such as Olympic), which have wide usage outside of the IOC context.
- The ALAC strongly supports protecting the names of selected INGOs and supports the type of criteria described in section 4.5 of the report.