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[ga] Destroying the Utility of the DNS

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  • Subject: [ga] Destroying the Utility of the DNS
  • From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:37:41 -0700 (PDT)

>From the Staff Report on a Draft IGO Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Procedure:

"The protection of IGO names and abbreviations is
foreseen in the new gTLD process, with an
objections-based approach for strings at the
top-level...; The objections-based approach for new
gTLD top-level
strings is part of a broader development task for
objections-based dispute resolution procedures for
top-level strings that are under development by ICANN
staff with the assistance of outside counsel."

Protecting IGO abbreviations at the top level is an
astoundingly horrible idea that has already been
consecrated by the GNSO Council in their new gTLD
Recommendation #3.

Attached to this message is a Word document listing
all the IGO acronyms currently protected under Article
6ter of the Paris Convention.  You will note that both
BIZ and AU are protected acronyms, and that the great
bulk of the entries are three and four letter
combinations.

Additionally there is a "dispute resolution process
(DRP) being proposed for domain names at the second
(and if applicable, third) levels that conflict with
IGO names and acronyms."

If these policies are adopted, it will be the greatest
clusterfuck in DNS history.

you can read about this abomination at 
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-igo-drp-report-v2-28sep07.pdf


       
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