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Full meetings of the GAC are usually conducted three times a year in conjunction with an ICANN public meeting. They may also be conducted intersessionally. GAC meetings are usually open. This part of the website provides access to past, present and future GAC meeting materials, including other calls and interactions the GAC has internally and with other groups.

Oct
31
2017
ICANN60 - Agenda Item 21 - IGOs / Red Cross Protections
10:30 - 11:00 UTC+04:00
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Hall 3
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Dial In Info
Session Details:

Thomas Schneider, GAC Chair

The GAC will discuss the situation of IGOs and Red Cross Protections.

  • The above discussions to be reflected in the GAC Communiqué (Completed).
Session Minutes:

2e: Protection of IGO Names and Acronyms

GAC members reviewed progress by the PDP on IGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms and again expressed concern that the views of IGOs were not properly being taken into account, contrary to established GNSO procedures and ICANN Bylaws. It was agreed that the Board should be advised to consider these procedural concerns. On other IGO protections, which have been the subject of previous GAC interest and advice, it was noted that there do not appear to have been any major developments since the facilitated discussion in Copenhagen.

At the face-to-face meeting with the Board, the Board reiterated its response to the Johannesburg Communique on the Curative Rights PDP, noting that there are still opportunities for the GAC and IGOs to contribute to the final report, and that there are Bylaw-mandated procedures for dealing with any rejection by the Board of either GAC advice or PDP recommendations.

2f: Red Cross / Red Crescent / Red Crystal

The GAC welcomed important progress made by the re-convened PDP Working Group on Protection of IGO-INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs with regard to protections for Red Cross and Red Crescent identifiers following the GAC advice in its Copenhagen Communiqué. However, the GAC noted that protections for acronyms of the International Committee of the Red Cross fall outside the remit of the re-convened PDP and that there do not appear to be immediate opportunities for addressing this in accordance with the GAC’s advice in the Durban Communique (July 2013).