[council] Final Issue Report on IGO & INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms
Dear all, Please find attached for your consideration the Final Issue Report on amending the UDRP and URS to enable IGO and INGO access to curative rights protection mechanisms. You will recall that the Council requested an Issue Report on the topic at the Buenos Aires meeting in November 2013 when it adopted the consensus recommendations from the PDP WG on Protection of International Organization Identifiers in All gTLDs (IGO-INGO PDP WG). Under the ICANN Bylaws, an Issue Report is a mandatory preceding step to a possible PDP that is initiated by the GNSO Council. The Preliminary Issue Report was published for public comment on 10 March 2014, with the reply period of the forum closing on 6 May 2014. A Report of Public Comments received was published on 16 May 2014. In preparing this Final Issue Report, all the public comments received were analyzed and, where relevant, incorporated into the Final Issue Report. The Report of Public Comments has also been added as a separate Annex. Essentially, the staff recommendation is that the Council initiate a PDP to consider: (1) whether the UDPR and/or URS should be amended for IGO and INGO access and use; and (2) if so, in what way or whether a separate, narrowly tailored procedure modeled on these measures, to apply specifically only to IGOs and INGOs, should be developed. Staff also recommends that the PDP be limited to considering only those IGO and INGO identifiers that the original IGO-INGO PDP WG recommended for protection, and the Final Issue Report outlines a number of specific issues and additional considerations for the Council to review in determining the scope and work of the PDP. The relevant motions are currently in preparation for proposal by a GNSO Councilor. The public comment forum, including a link to the Report of Public Comments, the Preliminary Issue Report and the Final Report of the IGO-INGO PDP WG can be found here: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/igo-ingo-crp-prelim-2014-03-10-en. Thanks and cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 Email: mary.wong@xxxxxxxxx * One World. One Internet. * Attachment:
FOR PUBLICATION Final Issue Report IGO INGO Access to Curative RPMs - 25 May 2014 PDF.pdf Attachment:
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